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A Proposed Guidance Program For Drakesboro Consolidated School, Ovid Arnold
A Proposed Guidance Program For Drakesboro Consolidated School, Ovid Arnold
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study is to show the need for and determine a basis for a guidance program. "Guidance is a means of helping individuals to understand and use wisely the educational, vocational, and personal potentialities and opportunities which they have or can develop."1
Why do we need a guidance program? Who can be benefited by it? First, our teachers need the services of a guidance program in order that they may know more about their pupils, -- their abilities and interests as well as their weaknesses. Information about the pupil's background, the different schools he has attended, …
A Study Of The Eighth Grade Graduates Of The Bullitt County Schools, Raymond Terry
A Study Of The Eighth Grade Graduates Of The Bullitt County Schools, Raymond Terry
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The following are the things the writer hopes to accomplish by this study:
I. Find the number of eighth grade graduates of the Bullitt County Schools over a four-year period (from 1948 to 1953):
- a. That entered high school
- b. That did not enter high school.
- c. That completed one, two or three years of high school.
- d. That completed high school.
- e. That married, died, etc. before entering or completing high school.
II. Find age of graduation from the eighth grade.
III. Compare the number of eighth grade failures in a non-consolidated school with those of a consolidated school. …
A Study Of The High School Graduates Of Bullitt County, Kentucky, Thomas S. Jeffries
A Study Of The High School Graduates Of Bullitt County, Kentucky, Thomas S. Jeffries
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
With the advent of the free public high school, there has been a thirty-fold increase in secondary school enrollment in the last fifty years. If we are to maintain and improve the quality of our democracy, it is essential that education have the primary purpose of meeting the needs of these students. “Consequently, the school program must be planned in terms of pupil needs and in relation to goals that are important to the students themselves. Activities and experiences must be provided which afford practice in all areas of democratic living, which are aimed at the improvement of life in …