The Money Value of Education, Issues 21-34

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - Education - 50 pages

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Page 237 - Prove that parallelograms on the same base and between the same parallels are equal in area.
Page 229 - Prove that the algebraic sum of the moments of two concurrent forces about any point in their plane is equal to the moment of their resultant about the same point.
Page 236 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 194 - A unit represents a year's study in any subject in a secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year's work.
Page 3 - This office can not supply the publications listed in this bulletin, other than those expressly designated as publications of the Bureau of Education. Books, pamphlets, and periodicals here mentioned may ordinarily be obtained from their respective publishers, either directly or through a dealer, or, in the case of an association publication, from the secretary of the issuing organization. Many of them are available for consultation in various public and institutional libraries. Publications intended...
Page 66 - If the work in the classe de math6matiques spe'ciales is so enormously difficult1 that only 2 to 5 per cent of its members can, at the end of one year, meet the standard of requirements of the examinations for which it prepares, why is not the instruction spread over two? Since nearly all the mathematical savants who now shed...
Page 287 - Special methods of instruction — Special subjects of curriculum— Kindergarten and primary school— Rural education — Secondary education— Teachers: Training and professional status— Higher education — School administration — School management — School architecture — School hygiene and sanitation...
Page 46 - PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, DC AT 25 CENTS PER COPY CONTENTS.
Page 196 - States of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, except under special permit.
Page 10 - In the community will feel and register the pulllng-down power of their backwardness as Inevitably as the thermometer records the temperature of the air. The merchant will have poorer trade, the doctor and lawyer smaller fees, the railroad diminished traffic, the banks smaller deposits, the preacher and teacher smaller salaries, and so on. Every man who through Ignorance, lack of training, or by reason of any other hindering cause, Is producing or earning only half as much as he ought, by his Inefficiency...

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