Word: school
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Norman Burdett Nash, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Christian Social Ethics, of the Episcopal Theological School will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...grant of $62,500 has been made by the General Education Board of New York to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the support of the Harvard Growth Study. It was announced yesterday by Dean B. W. Holmes...
...work was begun in the fall of 1921, and is therefore in its ninth year. The first measurements were made on a group of several thousand children shortly after their entrance into school. These children have been measured each succeeding year, and it is the intention of the investigators to continue the measurement for a total period of about 12 years, or as long as the majority of the "subjects" remain in school...
Professor W. F. Dearborn, of the graduate School of Education, conceived the idea of the study and has directed it from the beginning. It was supported in 1921-22 and 1922-23 by the commonwealth Fund, which granted $16,000 in each of these years to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for this purpose. The Commonwealth Fund limited its grants for educational research, on principle, to two years, and it has since withdrawn from this field of activity altogether. From 1923-24 through 1928-29 the School supported the study out of its unrestricted income, and the University...
...gift will be of great assistance to the Graduate School in its new program, under which it has raised and substantially changed its requirements for the degrees of Master of Education and Doctor of Education. The removal of the expense of supporting the Growth Study out of its regular income will consequently make possible other advances in the work of the School which have up to this time been impossible...