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A Survey Of The Bullitt County School System, J. O. Ward

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis on a survey of the school system of Bullitt County is being made for the purpose of recommending consolidation of the high schools and of larger grade centers.

An Analytical Study Of The School Budgets Of Kentucky For 1946-47, Leon Cook

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The school budgets of the different school districts of the state of Kentucky are prepared according to law and by the standard plan adopted by the State Board of Education. Kentucky School Law 160.170 demands that each board of education prepare a budget and present it to the State Board of Education for approval. The standard form adopted by the State Board of Education contains the following items or main divisions: General Control, Instruction, Operation of School Plant, Maintenance, Fixed Charges, Auxiliary Service, Transfer of Tuition, Capital Outlay and Debt Services.

This study will take the budget of each board …

Study Of Non-Enrollment & Absences In Kentucky, Mitchell Davis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

During the school year 1944-45, the Division of Census and. Attendance of the Kentucky State Department of Education attempted to find the answer to two very important and timely questions concerning school enrollment and attendance in the state. These two questions were first, 'Why do children fail to enroll in school?" and second, 'Why do children fail to attend regularly after they do enroll?"

Survey forms were prepared and sent to all of the 257 school districts in the state, calling for the number of census children by age, grade, sex and race not enrolled in school and why they …

An Improvement Plan For Green County Kentucky Schools, Marion Webb Gumm

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The foremost thought in the minds of educators is better educational facilities for our youth. This thought. is especially true in Kentucky. Then compared with the nation, Kentucky ranks low in the field of education. Kentucky is slowly progressing to higher levels of education.

Kentucky has some very poor counties that have to battle many obstacles to improve their educational systems. Many of the counties in Kentucky have very limited sources of revenue. Many of its residents are not educated to the need of more modern educational facilities. It is the aim of this thesis to show the need and …

Accreditation Of Public Schools, Clarence Hodges

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problems of this thesis are three-fold:

1. To familiarize administrators and citizens with the problems and needs of accreditation to the extent that these problems become axiomatic,
2. To determine who does the accreditation and how comprehensively is it done,
3. To revise the present state form used for accreditation of Kentucky schools by comparison with other state-accrediting forms.

The Relationship Between The Intelligence & Emotional Stability Of Seventh & Eighth Grade Pupils, Thomas Boone

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A question nearly as old as the intelligence test itself led the author to make the investigation upon which this thesis is based. For years people in education and related fields have speculated as to whether the most intelligent children were the most stable emotionally or whether these brighter children tended more readily than the dull or average child to exhibit undesirable personality variations.

Practically everyone has, at some time in his life, used one or two isolated circumstances to prove the point that the more intelligent children were emotionally unstable or that the duller children were more unstable , …