Word: towners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly a year active agitation in favor of some sort of Federal law for the advancement of education has been in progress; on April 11, 1921. Mr. Towner introduced a bill in the House of Representatives which would create a department of education in the charge of a Secretary. At the meeting held Saturday morning in Lawrence Hall many prominent educators spoke of the need of the States for assistance in educational work. The proposed bill is designed for the purpose of granting moneys to the states for their aid; it is not planned to have it control schools...
...taken by the American Council of Education in May 1921, showed that its members were in favor of the bill. There are other factors which point out the beneficial results a national Department of Education could give Experiences during the war show that Americanization is a slow process; the Towner-Sterling Bill would help that situation by appropriating $7,500,000 for such work. A similar sum to be used for the training of native-born illiterates, and 50 millions for the equalization of opportunities in public, elementary, and secondary schools, would surely do good. This, and the industrial regeneration...
...Conference will be held at 10.30 o'clock this morning in Lawrence Hall for the purpose of discussing the Towner-Sterling Bill. Dean H.W. Holmes '03 of the Graduate School of Education will preside, and included in the program will be speeches by prominent educators on the subjects, "Educational Research and Investigation", "Physical Education", "Americanization or Removal of Illiteracy", "Teachers' Salaries", "Training of Teachers", and "Rural Education...
Dr.H.S. Magill will explain the origin, backing, and present status of the Towner Sterling Bill, the most important measure concerning education that has been considered by Congress since the Smith-Hughes Bill, providing for national aid for vocational education...
...document is the most important measure concerning education that has been before Congress since the Smith Hughes-Bill providing for national aid for vocational education. The Towner Sterling Bill creates a Department of Education, with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet at a salary of $12,000 and transfers to the Department the present Bureau of Education with its equipment and personnel. It directs the department to conduct research in special fields and authorizes appropriation up to $500,000 for its administer. The most important clauses in the bill are those authorizing $15,000,000 for the removal...