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An Instrumental Music Method For Teaching Band Instruments In Classes In The Fourth And Fifth Grades, Robert A. Gantner

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The Basic Instrumental Method is an attempt to provide music materials suitable for the teaching of instrumental music to children in the grade schools using the class method. Four approaches have been used in developing this method. They are the following: (1) The selection of six basic instruments suitable for small children, (2) arrangement of the material in such a manner as to allow for individual advancement, (3) a well graded presentation of rhythmic problems, and (4) a recognition of the psychological value of motivation.

John E. Massey : Lawyer, Minister, Public Servant, Educator, Pattie Phillips Hargrove

Master's Theses

When you study the life of a man, it is necessary also to know the times in which he lived. The events that are taking place influence the life of the man. Therefore I think it is good to know a little of the history of Virginia during the time of John E. Massey. For the century in which he lived the great Civil War took place which influenced the lives of the people of the nation and which especially affected Virginians because part of the war was fought on the soil of Virginia.

Truancy : Its Sociological Implications, Helen Marie Hulcher

Master's Theses

The term,"truancy", is interpreted in various ways. Julia Richman, District Superintendent of the Public Schools of New York in 1909, said, "The law in some states defines "truancy" as a failure to attend school, making no difference between the parents offense in keeping the child at home and the child's offense in remaining away from school without the parent's knowledge. It is this latter form which the school and the school alone must check." A. o. Neal, Superintendent of Schools, Franklin,Indiana, in the same year said, "Some Juvenile courts in Indiana have held that the truancy law means not only …

A Descriptive Study Of The Guidance Services In Operation At Two Secondary Schools Of Louisville, Kentucky., Mary Edna Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the Problem. The purpose of this study is threefold. An attempt will be made, 1. to present and defend sixteen principles underlying an adequate guidance program for secondary schools, 2. to describe as accurately as possible, the activities of guidance that operate in two of Louisville's secondary schools, 3. to offer suggestions and to encourage administrators and teachers of these two schools, to submit recommendations, which might help to establish successful guidance services in their particular schools and which might eventually result in the organization of an adequate Guidance Program for Secondary Education in Louisville. Reasons Why Subject …

Inventory Of Attitudes And Opinions Of Utah Educators On Social And Educational Issues, Max L. Gowans

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

From the earliest beginnings of man, ideas and ideals have been issues of controversy and conflict which have added to or detracted from his social wellbeing. Individuals, groups and nations have set up ideologies of living which differ from each other and form the social structure upon which society progresses or declines.

An Analysis And Evaluation Of The Methods Of Reporting Pupils' Progress In The Elementary Schools Of Utah, John W. Chadwick

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study of the pupil-progress reports of the elementary schools of the state of Utah came about as the request of an assignment of the late Superintendent Keith Wahlquist. In answer to requests of local teachers and principals, a committee was assigned to make an investigation and recommendations for a revision of our reporting system. The work with the committee led to further study, which finally led to the writing of this thesis.

After a tentative formulation of the problem, a program of reading was outlined to ascertain current trends in pupil-progress reports. A request was mailed to all school …

Religion In Education, Adele Eames Franks

Master's Theses

!he purpose ot this study is to review one of the pressing problems of education its relation to religion in the light of the cultural changes in our democratic society, and in the light of the scientific study of religion. Studies in religion during the last fifty years have shown with increasing clarity that religion is not an isolated and specialized experience in and of itself but a potential quality that inheres in any and every experience of normal living, operating in the realm of appreciation and values.

Studies of our changing culture of the last fifty years have …

Federal Aid To Schools, Madge Arbogast Henderson

Master's Theses

It is my purpose in this thesis to present as far as possible an analysis of the social and economic bases of national interest in education. It would appear that a nation which is able to prepare for war so speedily, so effectively, apparently so efficiently as did this United States of America can "afford" to educate every citizen for democracy and the democratic way of life. The nation did not set up draft boards in each state independent of the National Government, but rather the National Government took and assumed the responsibility of setting up draft boards in each …

A History Of The Public Schools Of Durango, Colorado, Cecil Morgan Mckinley

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The aim of this study is to record the growth of the public schools of Durango, Colorado, from 1881 to 1944. It is a chronological history, with stress on the problems encountered with the establishing and developing of the school system. The biographies of the schools' administrators, found in the appendix, have a part in explaining the growth and achievements of the Durango Schools.

The material in this school history offers lessons to the educator and the layman. Since no two public schools travel exactly the same path of growth, a narrative of an additional school system adds some practical …

Educational Problems In China, Wei Yoen Tu

Master's Theses

For muny centuries the Chinese had very little contact with outside world. Mountains, desert, and ocean were barriers which helped to protect the Chinese and their country from foreign invasions. Because of this isolation, China produced a civilization which is entirely different from others. The ancient Chinese civilization was so well established that it has survived; uninterrupted and not greatly changed to the present century. For a long time it was a great advantage to the Chinese to be shut away from the outside while the Occidentals were making steady progress. The progressive scientific knowledge and the genius of various …

History And Educational Philosophy Of Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools, Carl William Shafer

Master's Theses

In introducing this subject, History and Educational Philosophy of Seventh-day Adventist Secondary Schools, it is important first that the need and purpose of Christian education be stated. If there is no real need or no real purpose, then Seventh-day Adventists have no right to sacrifice their means and energies in the establishing and maintaining of these secondary schools the world over.

Seventh-day Adventists have believed, from the beginning of their movement, that Christian education is the only answer to the education of the full man. All great educators agree that if education does what it should do, it develops the …

Robert Mills Lusher, Louisiana Educator., Howard Turner

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Opportunities Offered In Negro And White Senior High Schools In The Field Of Commerce In West Virginia, Victorine A. Louistall

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Commercial education is relatively a newcomer in our schools, as compared with the College Preparatory Course. Because of the demands of business and society the content of the commercial course has been largely increased to include such subjects as commercial law, salesmanship, consumer economics, insurance, business machines, office practice, and other subjects, to meet these new demands.

Since the field of commercial education is still newer in the Negro high schools it seems to the writer to be necessary that a comparison of situations will be the basis for determining future needs and equipment in the Negro and white high …

A Study Of Personnel Practices In A Selected Group Of Negro Colleges And Universities, Pauline Watson Gould

Tennessee State University Alumni Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Relationship Between The Intelligence Quotient And Reading Ability Before And After An Intensive Remedial Reading Program With Sixth Grade Pupils, Mary Emma Cleary

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Administration Of A Child Care Center During The War Emergency, Laurence A. Farrar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

As a teacher in the Stockton Public Schools, the writer became interested in the child-care program when he was asked to direct the newly formed center at the Lafayette school in Stockton on July 1, 1945. At this writing he served nearly two years in this center and has a modest feeling that possibly his experiences, observations and conclusions might be worth writing down, hence this thesis.

At the outset the author intended to confine his thesis to the Child-Care Center as a war emergency matter, feeling that child-care centers were more or less of recent origin, set up mainly …

A Study Of Elementary Schools Of California As They Have Been Affected By The Total War Program, Margaret N. Deffterios

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the problem. The purpose of this study was (1) to determine to what extent the schools of California were prepared to meet the total war program; (2) to determine and analyse conditions present in areas most affected by war industries; (3) to determine and analyse conditions in areas least affected; (4) to determine the cause and effect of the war on the pupils of elementary school age, both in rural and urban areas; (5) to determine and present procedures applicable to the economic good of the child in regard to housing, rationing, transportation, and recreation; (6) to understand …

A Study Of Secondary Education For Negroes In Tennessee With Suggestions For Postwar Planning, Beulah Johnson Tipton

Tennessee State University Alumni Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The History Of Adult Elementary And Secondary Education And Possibilities For Future Service In Louisville, Kentucky., Flora L. Morris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was inspired by a statement in the Louisville Public School Survey, 1943, in which Dr. George A. Works said, "Programs of adult education are exceedingly important in the modern community. The nature of modern life and the demands for continuous education and training suggest the need for school service in this area. Following the war, the demand will undoubtedly be very great. Louisville would do well to assign definite staff time for development of basic plans in this area." The writer was connected with the Works Progress Administration Adult Education Program as teacher from 1935 to 1937, and …

Religious Education And The Public Schools, John Zornan

Master's Theses

The purpose or this monograph is to survey and evaluate the relationship between religious education and the public schools from the early colonial times to the present. Special attention rill be paid to the widespread agitation that formal religious courses be introduced into the public school curriculum. This necessitates a thorough investigation of the Weekday Church School which is to be the chief' agency of' such courses. The last chapters will be devoted to comments and conclusions based on the fact• as presented.

Occupational Survey Of Ogden City With Implications For Vocational Education, Leroy A. Blaser

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

One of the most striking characteristics of society today is the marvelous development that is everywhere manifest along industrial lines. In nearly every department of industry the simple processes which formerly prevailed have become differentiated into a great variety of activities, and all have been organized into a definite system. Methods of exploiting the earth in search for raw materials, processes of manufacture, and modes of distribution and exchange have become wonderfully complex. The influence of this change is far-reaching. It permeates every phase of life. It operates in the church as well as in the state, in the home …

Under The Blazing Sun : A Unit Of Work In Social Studies For The Fourth Grade., Virginia H. Franklyn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Academic Success Of Elementary Pupils During Their First Year In Highland Junior High School., Esther Barth

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Elementary Science Course Of Study Developed For Use In The Stockton Unified School District, David H. Smith

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Elementary science has made rapid strides in the last four or five years. In our elementary schools we have the laymen and scientists of tomorrow. The masses should have a speaking acquaintance with science and know the value to society through its modern inventions and discoveries. Knowledge of facts discovered by scientists give rise to conceptions that vitalize thinking in many fields and cause the redirection of human activities. Scientific conceptions such as time, space, change, variety, adaptation, and interrelationships have exerted profound influence upon thinking in wide areas of human affairs. These concepts can never be mastered, but they …

Private Education In Petersburg, Virginia, 1748-1943, William W. Reade

Master's Theses

The object of this study is to present as completely as available data will permit the history of private education in Petersburg from the time of its "establishment" as a town in 1748 to the present.

The Development Of Commercial Education In New Orleans., Ollie Mae Sills

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Some Significant Home And Community Factors Which Influence Juvenile Delinquency : With Particular Reference To Delinquency Problems Of The City Of Sacramento And The Sacramento City Schools, Harlow Alfred Hanlon

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

For many years, an adult Historical Background society has been involved in treating Juvenile delinquency problems. This fact is reflected in the Poor Laws of Elizabethan England, in the Indenture and Settlement Laws which date back to 1601, and the hit-or-miss idealism of private charities.

In the United States, we find it in the transplanting of the Indenture and Settlement Laws and the Almshouse In the Early English Colonies on the main land of North America. Toward the close of the seventeenth century, the first almshouse was established in Boston and others follower until by the beginning of the nineteenth …

A Study Of The Height And Weight Of Chinese School Children In Some Northern Californian Cities, Lillian Wai-Chuen Chow

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In any study of physical fitness or of nutritional well-being of a group of people, a knowledge of the normal height and weight of that group serves as a valuable guide. Thus, Height-Weight-Age tables have been prepared and are being used in schools, gymnasiums, camps, etc., as a gauge of physical development in children. However, for the group of Chinese school children in the United States very little work has been done to determine the normal height range and weight at the different ages and the normal height-weight-age relationships.

Because of the lack of data on the normal weights and …

Home Instruction For Physically Handicapped White Children In Louisville, Kentucky 1939-1940 To 1943-1944, Inclusive., Caroline Finzer Gray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Eighty-four children have been enrolled in Home Instruction given by the Louisville Public Schools, during the past five years, 1939-1940 to 1943-1944, inclusive. Home Instruction is given only to those children who cannot attend school, due to various physical handicaps. The writer feels that it will be profitable to examine the data collected concerning the eighty-four pupils, not only for the guidance of those intimately concerned with the Louisville program, but also for the information of similar workers in other cities and of the large numbers of lay people whose chief interest is due to their feeling that "the physically …

A Study Of The Failures In The 6a Grades Of Louisville, Kentucky, For The Year 1941-1942., Lena Ruth Towles 1905-1966

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.