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A Study Of Children Retained In The First Grade In The Sunnyside Public School District, Barbara J. Quigley Jul 1963

A Study Of Children Retained In The First Grade In The Sunnyside Public School District, Barbara J. Quigley

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The principal purpose of this study was to gather information showing the effects of non-promotion on the achievement of those children, currently enrolled in the Sunnyside Public School District, who had been retained in the first grade. The purpose of the study was (1.) to determine the primary reasons given by the teacher for effecting the retention; (2) to show the progress of each of these children in reading and, in some cases, in arithmetic and spelling during his subsequent elementary school years.


A Study To Investigate The Need For An Air Conditioned Thermal Environment In Our Schools, Richard Edward Barich Aug 1961

A Study To Investigate The Need For An Air Conditioned Thermal Environment In Our Schools, Richard Edward Barich

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The purpose of this study was to investigate our schools' need for a thermal environment provided by air conditioning.