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Study Of A Thematic Unit On Appalachian Cultural Heritage And Effect On Attendance And Attitude Toward School, Charlene Nunn
Study Of A Thematic Unit On Appalachian Cultural Heritage And Effect On Attendance And Attitude Toward School, Charlene Nunn
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
An applied project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Education Specialist at Morehead State University by Charlene Nunn on December 19, 1994.
A Follow-Up Study Of Students Exiting New Dominion School, Lillian M. Firestone-Johansen
A Follow-Up Study Of Students Exiting New Dominion School, Lillian M. Firestone-Johansen
Theses & Honors Papers
The research of the past two decades has resulted in a proliferation of information regarding the various reasons for dropping out of school and the characteristics of dropouts. Little has been done, however, to examine the life outcomes of those who have dropped out, or of how various treatments effect those outcomes . This is also true for those youth who are still in school, but who have become academically disengaged. The purpose of this study was to gain information regarding the life outcomes of students who attended a wilderness, residential treatment school called New Dominion. Questionnaires were mailed to …
Promising Practices: Perspectives Of Junior And Senior High At-Risk Students, Janet Dalman
Promising Practices: Perspectives Of Junior And Senior High At-Risk Students, Janet Dalman
Dissertations
This dissertation examined the “fit of school and Me” from at-risk students’ perspectives. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into at-risk students’ views on what school elements were necessary and helpful in their achieving success, in their seeing hope, and in their choosing to remain in school.
Promising practices of affective/nurturing and cognitive/learning gleaned from the literature review of success producing school components were examined within the context of most favorite and least favorite classrooms during focus group interviews with junior high school and senior high school at-risk and non-at-risk students. Students were asked to compare and …
The Founding Of A School: An Oral History Of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, Joan Yotive Berland
The Founding Of A School: An Oral History Of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, Joan Yotive Berland
Graduate Student Independent Studies
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School was founded in the early 1980's by Peter Geffen and other Jewish professionals and laypersons who were committed to a school that was independent of any synagogue or organization. A school where a wide range of Jewish beliefs and practices along with secular studies could be integrated through intellectual, academic, ethical, artistic, social and emotional realms.
By conducting interviews with 4 or the 8 people who taught or worked at the Heschel school when it opened in 1983, it was possible to collect an oral history that revealed aspects which were significant in founding and …
An Analysis Of Individual Philosophical Foundations And Pedagogical Teaching Behaviors, Steven Charles Bailey
An Analysis Of Individual Philosophical Foundations And Pedagogical Teaching Behaviors, Steven Charles Bailey
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Character-Based Education: Its Place In The Elementary School Curriculum, Nancy F. Deloge
Character-Based Education: Its Place In The Elementary School Curriculum, Nancy F. Deloge
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.