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Educational Shortages In The Bookkeeping Courses Of Study In The Indianapolis Public High Schools In 1942, William Stover Barnhart

Graduate Thesis Collection

The major purpose of this investigation is to make a limited but definite contribution to the task of revising the course of study in bookkeeping for the Indianapolis high schools.

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 …

A Historical Sketch Of Public High Schools For Negroes In Louisiana, Edna M. Cordier

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

The question of educational facilities for Negroes as become an acute problem in the South in the last decade. The demand for equal opportunities in education is becoming more and more insistent among the mentally alert leaders of the colored group. They believe that since they are called upon to perform certain duties imposed by the Constitution, they should share in the benefits guaranteed by this sacred document.

Education For Negroes In New Orleans Prior To 1915, Marie Dejan

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

The purpose of this story is to narrate the details of events covering the education of the Negro in New Orleans from the time of slavery to 1915. After the history of the private school movement, a comprehensive description of the origin of the public schools will be given.

Education For Negroes In New Orleans Prior To 1915, Marie Dejan

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.

Health Education In The Public Schools Of Hawaii, Thelma F. Atkins

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will trace the major developments in the field of health education in the public schools or the Territory of Hawaii from the beginnings made in 1009 to the present time. Some attention will be paid to developments on the Islands or Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai; but the greater emphasis will be placed on the work done on the Island of Oahu.

The public schools of the Territory of Hawaii are at present carrying on an extensive health program. The special health class work seems to be receiving more attention in the non-English standard schools. The need is more …

A History Of The Education Of The Chinese In Hawaii, Sylvianne Fei-Ai Li Chun

Honors Papers

In the transplanting of any race or people, a period of acclimatization by the process of natural or formal education must inevitably ensue if that group wishes to survive both mentally and spiritually; and in many cases physically.

In any community a human, in order to make himself agreeable and useful, must learn to cooperate with his or hers neighbors. This is usually accomplished by first learning the language of one's country of adoption, then to learn the philosophy of the inhabitants already established there, and finally to apply one's self diligently by industry and perseverance to occupation.

The Chinese …

The History Of Education In Windsor, Connecticut, Ervin Sylvester Farrington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Thesis (M.S.) in Education--University of Maine, 1939.

The purpose of this study is to show three hundred years of educational progress in Windsor, Connecticut, from 1614, when the earliest records are found, through the colonial period, the period of parish control of schools and the period of town and private control of schools.

This thesis is based almost entirely on original records and documents. All show intimate glimpses of one of the most interesting and most historic communities in all New England.

A Preliminary Study Of Duplication In The Courses Of Study Prepared For Ten Youth Organizations Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Covering The Ten-Year Period September, 1927 To August, 1937, Alfred C. Nielsen

Theses and Dissertations

The problem is to make a preliminary study of duplication in the courses of study in ten youth oganizations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a ten-year period, September, 1927 to August, 1937, with the purpose of discovering the nature and extent of a duplication in material that young people from four to twenty years of age have met as they have participated in the classes of various Church organizations.

The Public Relations Program Of The Alameda City Schools, Harold V. Lajeunesse

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Public relations programs have been generally characterized as having as their purpose the indoctrination of the public along lines favorable to a commodity, a service, or an idea. In education, there seems to be a growing realization that the function of a public relational program in the school system is the utilization of all of the agencies of a community toward the end of accomplishing the objectives of the public schools. This realization has been further stimulated as educators have recognized that isolation from the community is often detrimental to the aims of the schools. In broadening the scope of …

Legal Restrictions Governing Teachers In Their Employment And Work, Laurence C. Coffey

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This investigation has been concerned with the operation of laws affecting teachers' rights as revealed by cases carried to supreme or other appellate courts and seeks specific answers to the general question "What are the legal restrictions that operate to affect the teacher in her employment and work?"

The Comparative Intellectual Abilities Of Full And Mixed Blood Indians : A Study Based On A Testing Experiment Of Two Hundred And Eighty-Six Indian Students In Attendance At The United States Indian Boarding School, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1937, Ingaborg Jonasson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The 1928 Salary Schedule Of The City Of Alameda And Its Effect Upon The Improvement Of Teachers In Service, James Mathews Bryan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The improvement of the teaching staff is a problem that constantly confronts every school department. Writers of leading books on school administration consider this problem so important that they almost universally devote one or two chapters to its discussion. Dr. Ellwood F. Cubberley suggests that the addition of a few young, well-trained teachers to the staff each year is one way of improving the work of a whole department. In recent years, however, many school departments have been unable to add new strength to their school systems by the addition of new teachers, for the reason that there were no …

Fire Insurance Practices And Economies On Public School Buildings Of Curry County, New Mexico, James Mcdonald Bickley

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

1. What are present practices in Curry County with reference to insurance on public school buildings, and, especially, to what extent is the sound net insurable value taken into consideration when determining the amount of insurance to be carried? 2. What are the relative merits of flat rate insurance and coinsurance, the two forms of insurance now in use on Curry County school buildings? 3. By what defensible methods can insurance rates on public school buildings of Curry County be reduced?

The Financing Of Education In Homestead Areas, Lester Turnbaugh

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Some explanation is necessary of the method of procedure in compiling material for this thesis. The first step was really taken seven years ago. At that time the writer interviewed state officials at Sacramento, California, in the hope of obtaining state aid for educational finance in the Tule Lake section of the Klamath Irrigation Project. The Governor, the department of education, and the finance department were all consulted, but no legal way was discovered of using state money for the erection of school buildings in the district mentioned. Some county money was available for payment of teachers’ salary, but none …

A Financial History Of State Education In Virginia, Lewis E. Chittum

Master's Theses

In state finances of Virginia education is second only to highways. The present position of education in the budget was not attained easily. On the contrary it was only through a long process that Virginia came to realize the fundamental duty of educating all the people at public expense. Thus, the extent to which the state has participated in this problem is an all important matter. In the following study, state participation has been reviewed from its earliest beginnings. he colonial period is included, as it reveals the tendencies working for the revelation of the obligation of the government to …

The Advantages Of Home Economics In The Elementary School, Helen C. Banks

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

Thus in summing up the advantages of Home Economics in the Elementary Schools, where it plays so vital a part in the child's training in fitting the child to meet the needs of society, we find Home Economic playing an important part in the school curriculum of to-day.

A History Of Education In Mexico Since 1857, Alma S. Andrews

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to give an outline of the marked progress of education in Mexico since 1857, the date of the final separation of church and state.

Having taught tor several years in Americanization schools, the writer has experienced close contact with all classes of Mexicans. Consequently, this study has been entered into for the purpose of bringing about a better understanding of the peculiar needs of the people and of the problems confronting the Mexican nation as a whole.

It is the sincere hope of the writer that this work will absorb the interest or those …

The Teaching Of Negro History In The Elementary School, David Joseph Jackson

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

One of the reasons why there is such a great lack of cooperation within the race is ignorance of race ability. Students in high-school and college often times have but a vague and obscure concept of the Negro race, educationally, industrially, economically, and when in time these students seek to make and adjustment they find themselves handicapped . For this reason in order that, that love of race, that race consciousness, that makes not only for loyal race brothers, but rather which makes for true loyal law abiding citizens of America, Negro History, should find a place in the curriculum …

Radio And A Public Address System For The High School, Kenneth H. Westlake

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

All the findings and knowledge of electricity and magnetism are not new; even the Greeks as far back as 600 B. C. knew something about these forces. As time went on the facts increased.

After the experiments of Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz and such men as these, electricity and magnetism became a vital part of human life and endeavor. Within the last twenty-five years the advances in electricity have been very rapid. The action of the electric current is a vital part of many developments and is helping to make human life more enjoyable and interesting.

Almost all schools today are …

Pupil Retardation In The Elementary Public Schools Of Stockton,California, Elsie Copeman Mclerie

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem is this study is to locate and analyze the retarded pupils in the Stockton Elementary Public Schools. A retarded pupil is defined as one who is eight years or over in the first grade; nine years or over in the second grade; ten years or over in the third grade --- and so on. The following chart shows the ages that are considered normal for each grade: [see PDF]

The Importance Of Play, Laura V. Douglas

Education Student Dissertations

While reading the "Principles of Educational Sociology" by Walter Robinson Smith, the writer was deeply impressed by the statement that "Next to the family group and home life, the play group and play life exert the most vital influence upon the unfolding personality of the child." The writer wondered if it was the absence of play life, as American born children of fair social background experience it, that would in some measure explain the dullness of the Italian-American child of Sicilian and Neapolitan origin, who, as the writer knew him, was so lovable, so anxious and eager to please and …

Fundamental Objectives Of The New Professionalism In The Preparation Of Teachers, George H. Carpenter

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Progressive Education And Its Application To Certain Schools Of California, William Wells Pratchner

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

A new idea of education is upon us and if we are to achieve a civilization based upon justice and cooperation, realization of a greater personal freedom and the accomplishment of a fuller democracy, education must pave the way.

Before this goal can be fully realized, fundamental changes and adjustments must be accomplished in our social and industrial life. A new education will be one of the most potent factors in the reshaping of our national character. This education must be one that will truly equip men and women with knowledge, inspiration, and power necessary to build new institutions, and …

The Teaching Of Reading Affords One Of The Greatest Opportunities For The Development Of Character In The Junior High School, Dolores O. Johnson

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.

Latin Has Always Held Prominence As An Educational Factor, R M

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

Rome one of the greatest powers of the ancient world has exerted important influence upon practically all modern nations. It has done much to shape the lives and customs of the people is necessary to obtain an understanding of our language, our literature, our religion our art and out government. This fact makes Latin as their language, and important topic for study by all nations in all ages.

A Psychological And Educational Study Of The Language Factors Of The American Research Council. Psychological Examinations Administered To Freshmen At The College Of The Pacific In The Years 1925, 1926, And 1928, Chester Livingston Hoar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to determine, as far as possible, the extant to which the language-factor tests included in present psychological examinations administered to freshmen at the Collage of the Pacific are reliable as factors contributing to an estimate of the capacities of the individuals examined.

This necessitates a study of both the gross and language-factor tests scores

In making the study, the results of examinations given in three years,—1925, 1926, and 1928, —were utilized. The total number of cases included in these years was 560, a sufficient number to warrant the placing of considerable reliance upon the …

Experimental And Observational Geometry, Albert D. Field

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Geometry has the distinction of being one of the oldest subjects given in the high-school.

Its subject-matter was formulated and organized by the Greeks into a fine system of thought before the time of Christ. Since leaving the hands of the Greeks, geometry has received only a few minor changes, and these largely in recent years.

Heretofore, the study of geometry has been made almost entirely dependent upon memory and reasoning. Geometricians have been slow in adopting the laboratory and observational methods.

This thesis has been written to encourage the student in his work of observing geometrical forms, and in …

The Model School As An Educational Factor, John Henry Purnell

Historical Dissertations & Theses

The term "model" school has two meanings. One is that which relates to an elementary school, sometimes a secondary school, connected more or less intimately with the professional work of a normal school, or training school for teachers. The other refers to a school which presumes to show the efficiency of certain educational theories and to increase the efficiency of the schools of the state, nation or empire by setting an example. This study has been mainly from the point of view of one interested in setting an example for other schools; but some of the schools connected with institutions …

Moving Pictures As A Factor In Education, Pierce J. Fleming

Historical Dissertations & Theses

No abstract provided.