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An Investigation Of Problems In Adult Education, With Special Emphasis Upon A Particular Program In The State Of Virginia, Roy Conrad Lilly

Master's Theses

As the modern system of education progresses, new terms are being applied to old practices with resulting new significance. Such a new term is "adult education"; such an old practice is lifelong learning. The latter is, of course, and ancient ideal in the history of civilization, but adult education as an organized social process is comparatively recent in American life.

Changes In Mental Maturity After Periods Of Residence At The Richmond Home For Boys, Mabel Mclain Nanouski

Master's Theses

In this study, only the effect of broken homes on the child's mental and emotional growth will be treated since much has been written about its effect on the social and economic security of our country. This study is concerned primarily with children from eight to eighteen years of age. Adults will be referred to only es they concern the lives of these children.

An Investigation Of Problems In Adult Education, With Special Emphasis Upon A Particular Program In The State Of Virginia, Roy Conrad Lilly

Master's Theses

As the modern system of education progresses, new terms are being applied to old practices with resulting new significances. Such a new term is "adult education"; such an old practice is lifelong learning. The latter is, of course, an ancient ideal in the history of civilization, but adult education as an organized social process is comparatively recent in American life. Although the term was not recognized under the name "adult education" until 1924, in meaning and practice it reaches backward into our early community life to the opening of the first public evening school in 1819, to the first attempt …

A Proposed Realistic Physical Education Program For Summer Hill Elementary School, Richmond, Va, Oscar Willard Fary

Master's Theses

Increased enrollment, addition of new teachers, classes on double shift, and other factors discussed below have made it necessary to revise the Physical Education Program at Summer Hill School. Three large housing developments in the area served by the school have just been completed. The families who have moved into these homes are of a different social and economic status from the former residents of the community. There is being built an addition to the school consisting of six classrooms, an office, a cafeteria, and a clinic room. This addition is scheduled to be competed by September 1951. The large …

A Survey Of The Use Of The Iowa Silent Reading Test In Virginia Group Iii High Schools, William Young Manson

Master's Theses

Reading is a tool that every boy and girl in the Junior and senior high schools in the state or Virginia must use skillfully to attain maximum success in his school learning. The foregoing statement is probably or more importance today than at any previous time. In the classes of English, social studies, and the natural sciences more emphasis has been placed recently upon the ability both to road rapidly from a wider range or sources ,and to understand the material that has been read.

A Consolidation Program For The White High Schools Of Dinwiddie, Prince George, And Sussex Counties, Bernard Theophilus Doyle

Master's Theses

Statement of the Problem.

The purpose of this study is to develop a consolidation program for the white high schools of three Southside Virginia school divisions. These three divisions, with the names of the white high schools currently operating in each, are as follows:

DINWIDDIE COUNTY

Dinwiddie High School

Midway High School

Sunnyside-McKenney High School

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY:

Carson High School

Disputanta High School

SUSSEX COUNTY

Jarratt High School

Stony Creek High School

Wakefield High School

Waverly High School

A Study Of The Need For Improvement In Classroom Environment For Optimum Pupil Growth, Development And Performance As An Integrated Whole, E. Eugene Higgins

Master's Theses

The need for visual-centered classrooms.