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Effects Of The Media On Parents And Teachers In Regard To Reading Aloud To Children, Darwin Spiller

McCabe Thesis Collection

Reading aloud to children has always been a part of classroom instruction, but it has been neglected in recent years because of time constraints in the classroom due to the requirement for accountability, competency testing, and other demands on time. The media, however, point out that reading aloud to children as young as one year of age will increase vocabulary, improve listening skills, and enhance ability to comprehend. It would appear that many parents and teachers hear the message but do not take this advice seriously.

The purpose of this study is to establish whether the media has influenced the …

Selected Factors Influencing Academic Success Of First-Year Students In Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools In Rwanda, Salomon Maniraguha

Dissertations

Problem. Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools recruit students through a severe entrance examination. However, after 9 months of schooling, more than 20% fail without possibility of repeating the grade or pursuing studies in less academically challenging schools. They are pushed out without means of coping with real life. This situation has multiple negative impacts on families who sell all their belongings in order to send their children to school where they can be prepared for a better life. It is for the interest of the Rwandese to learn which factors may contribute to maintaining these students in school.

Method. Data were …

Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Ministerial Education In Colonial Massachusetts, Charlotte Ryland

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Archaeology Goes To School: A Cooperative Approach To Teaching History Through Archaeology, Paul David Schuster

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Manassas Industrial School For Colored Youth, 1894-1916, Laura Ann Peake

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Academic Freedom And Faculty Careers: A Case Study Of Four Nobel Laureate Exiles, 1930-1940, Timothy Dale Norton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this historical study was to evaluate the consequences that the politically-determined conventions of academic freedom in Germany and in the United States had on the careers of four elite scientists before and after their emigration resulting from the threats of Nazism. This problem consisted of three distinct conceptual parts: (1) academic freedom, as a concept, (2) the political conventions of academic freedom within pre-World War II Germany and within pre- and World War II America, and (3) the effect that these definitions had on the careers of Albert Einstein, James Franck, Otto Meyerhof, and Otto Stern. The …

The Life Histories Of Ten Of The First Women To Attend The College Of William And Mary [1918-1930], Diane Marie Roy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Academic Freedom And The Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Experience, 1979-1989, James Benson Johnson Ii

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

As fundamentalist-conservatives pressed their agenda in Southern Baptist Convention life, and, in particular, as they assumed a majority on the board of trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, the academic freedom of the Southeastern faculty became an issue. Concerns enunciated by Robert M. MacIver (1955) provide reference points in responding to the inquiry: "Was the academic freedom of the faculty violated at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary?" While a prologue and epilogue are offered, the study parameters of the Southeastern Seminary experience are 1979 to 1989. The study concludes that academic freedom was compromised in this …

School Desegregation And Urban Renewal In Norfolk, 1950-1959, Forrest R. (Hap) White

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

Although a number of scholars have examined the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision had upon local school policies, there is a paucity of research on what repercussions that decision may have had upon a broad range of other related municipal issues. This historical case study explores the effect that opposition to court ordered school integration had upon the placement of school buildings and urban renewal projects in one Southern city, Norfolk, Virginia, where there was strong reason to believe that the municipal powers of school plant planning, redevelopment, and city planning were deliberately …

Horace Mann: A Comparison Of A Traditional And A Revisionist Biography, George C. Whiting

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to compare a traditional biography, Burke A. Hinsdale's Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States (1900), and a revisionist biography, Jonathan Messerli's Horace Mann: a Biography (1972), within a "neutral" frame of reference to determine which author made the more logical use of evidence to support his argument.;David H. Fischer's Historians' Fallacies (1970) and Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May's Thinking in Time (1986) were used to formulate a "neutral" frame of reference within which to analyze the two biographies.;Hinsdale's explanation was found to consist of a series of …

Presenting The Past: Education, Interpretation And The Teaching Of Black History At Colonial Williamsburg, Rex Marshall Ellis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation began in 1926. Within four years after its initial construction, the need to begin some means of presenting information to a growing population of visitors became apparent. In this study, an attempt will be made to answer the question, "How has the history of interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg influenced its teaching of black history?".;The major research question and the subsidiary questions were prompted by the recent inclusion of a black history program at the foundation. In this study, primary focus will be given to the history of interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg. An attempt will be made …

When Mary Entered With Her Brother William: Women Students At The College Of William And Mary, 1918-1945, Laura Frances Parrish

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Making Of "Polished Patriots": The Education Of Boys In Colonial Virginia, Jan Kirsten. Gilliam

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Educational Balance And Its Relationship To The Daily Schedule In Eighteen Seventh-Day Adventist Residence Academies In The United States, Eugene W. Rau

Dissertations

Problem. Within the time constraints of the 24-hour day and the sevenday week, and under the pressure of the increased number of units to be earned before graduation from Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) residence academies, it was doubtful that students were experiencing educational balance. The number of and time for activities in which a student could be engaged, plus the content and emphasis on daily functions, were studied and reported under five areas of educational balance: academic achievement, vocational and professional interests, social growth, physical activities, and religious experience.

Method. Representing grades ten, eleven, and twelve in 18 out of 36 …

A Study Of Four Bible Colleges Which Are Candidates For Accreditation With The Southern Association Of Colleges And Schools, Francis M. Nash

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Education at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Educational Specialist by Francis M. Nash on August 31,1984.

"So Good A Work": The Brafferton School, 1691-1777, Karen A. Stuart

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Diaries Of Henry A Washington, 1842--1845, H. A. Washington

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Admission Of Religious Nonconformists To The Universities Of Oxford And Cambridge And To Degrees In Those Universities, 1828--1871, Valerie K. Lund

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Henry St George Tucker, Legal Educator, Alta Elizabeth Cassady

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The College Of William And Mary, 1849-59: The Memoirs Of Silas Totten, Silas Totten

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Biographical Sketches Of Anglican Clergymen Trained At The College Of William And Mary, 1729-1776: A Study Of James Blair's Plan And Its Result, Susan Louise Patterson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Student-Worker Crisis In France May-June, 1968, John Bingham Munroe

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Maurice Francis Egan: Writer, Teacher, Diplomat, Caroline Patrice Peck

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

John Millington, Civil Engineer And Teacher, 1779-1868, Lavonne Olson Tarleton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

A History Of The Virginia Academy Of Science, 1923-1945, Harry Joseph Staggers

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

An Analysis And Appraisal Of The Women's Intramural Sports Program At The College Of William And Mary, 1945-1950, Inez Lois Smith

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Educating The Korean Juvenile Delinquent For Democracy, Harold Dwight Eastman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.