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Post-Service Career Planning For Military Personnel Interested In Education, Maxwell J. Ihrig

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to compile information (1) on the need for additional qualified personnel in the profession of education; (2) on the relatively untapped manpower of retire military personnel; (3) to become acquainted with the advantages and disadvantages of second careers in education; (4) on existing programs in schools of higher education designed to prepare persons from other areas of endeavor for a career in teaching; and (5) to develop an approach from this study for counseling military personnel nearing retirement and retired for a post-service career in education.

An Evaluation Of Distributive Education Programs In The Albuquerque Public Schools, Jack W. Goodner

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to evaluate the distributive education programs in the Albuquerque Public Schools as a basis for future planning.

An Analysis Of Heterogenous And Achievement Grouping Among An Experimental Group Of Ninety Students In The Los Alamos, New Mexico, Schools, Gene Howard Ebinger

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study is based on the hypothesis that children make greatest individual progress under a system of achievement grouping. Such a plan is not to be confused with ability grouping. When children are grouped according to their achievement, it is possible, and even likely, for a child of low average ability to be in the same group with children of great ability because he is achieving at a high rate.

Teacher Expectations Of The Elementary School Principal In Interpersonal Relations, William P. Johnston

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to analyze the nature of the behaviors of the elementary school principal resulting from interaction with the teaching staff and to determine which behaviors led to more satisfactory relations.

A Report Of Fifth Grade Arithmetic Program In Which Intra-Class Grouping Was Emphasized, Harley Maggart

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Since education as a science is relatively young, much research still remains to be done to improve techniques and methods of teaching children in light of their native abilities.

It was the purpose of this study (1) to show the effects of grouping in a fifth grade arithmetic class in terms of change in skills and attitudes and (2) to show examples of activities and materials used to promote growth in understandings and skills within different groups.

A Proposed System Of Public School Financial Accounting For New Mexico, Lamoine Langston

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was three-fold: (1) to analyze New Mexico school financial accounting practices on the basis of sound principles, (2) to present a system of accounting for New Mexico schools in accord with sound accounting principles, including necessary legal changes to implement the new system, and (3) to suggest procedures necessary for the present New Mexico school accounting practices to be in agreement with sound principles of school financial accounting.