Word: claxton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following persons will be present at the dinner: The Board of Overseers and the Corporation; the members of the General Education Board; Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education; State Superintendents of Education from all parts of the country; head-masters and principals of Massachusetts private and public schools...
...recent speech on the importance of university extension work, Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, recommended that the Federal Government appropriate $15,000,000 a year to induce the states to take greater interest in this work...
Another important group are the 15,000,000 women who soon will have the ballot and who need and want instruction in national issues before they will be able to properly use the ballot. Into another group Mr. Claxton put the 2.500,000 young men and women who become of age each year and of whom but a small proportion are privileged to go through high school...
...Claxton is endeavoring to help speed on the great strides made in university extension work during the last few years. Last year, he said, 42 states had some form of university extension work 129 institutions had some provisions to carry its work beyond the walls of the institutions and from this, 72,000 students were registered in classes, 120,000 were either in classes or doing their studies by correspondence, 2,000,000 others were reached by lectures, and 5,000,000 more were reached by illustrated lectures and moving pictures of an educational character...