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Gifted Children, Annie Belle Dehart Atwill
Gifted Children, Annie Belle Dehart Atwill
Master's Theses
Intellectually gifted children constitute one of a nation's greatest natural resources. High intelligence is the most important single attribute of the human race. All progress of civilization has probably been achieved through persons possessing special talents, together with a superior mind; all future progress will also depend on such persons with ability.
This study is delimited, first, by selecting the demarcating place at a point that will include all children falling in the hundredth percentile; the one per cent of the elementary school population thnt can enrn a 140 I. Q. or above on the Stanford-Binet Scale.These children will b …
William Henry Ruffner, Ellen Irby Hardy
William Henry Ruffner, Ellen Irby Hardy
Master's Theses
Virginia was most fortunate in having as her first Superintendent of Public Instruction, and later, as President of her first Teacher-Training institution, a man who under stood the .American ideals of democracy and whose faith in education and its ennobling effect on humanity never wavered.
It has been said that "he lit the torch of educa- tion in Virginia", and "gave local habitation and a name to the great plans of Jefferson." He has been called also, "the founder and father of Virginia's public school system", "the Horace Mann of Virginia", "the interpreter and fulfiller of Jefferson's dream", and "the …
History Of Early Education In Middlesex County, 1669-1890, Homer A. Mckann
History Of Early Education In Middlesex County, 1669-1890, Homer A. Mckann
Master's Theses
The purpose of this study is to present a clear and accurate history of education in Middlesex County from 1669 to 1891. The account is complete in so far as available material has made it possible.
The material presented in this thesis is an original investigation in that the information was secured, largely, from primary sources. This represents the first earnest effort to write a complete and detailed account of the development of education in Middlesex County. The facts were secured by diligent search through court records, legal documents, School Commissioners' reports, State School reports, contemporary histories, magazine articles and …