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Educational Trend In New Mexico Public Schools From 1899-1900 To 1929-1930 Inclusive, As Measured By Pupil Attendance And Length Of School Term, John Francis Cummins

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine the educational trend from 1899-1900 to 1929-1930 inclusive, using pupil attendance and length of school term. The following four questions are investigated.

1. What change in average daily attendance in the public schools of New Mexico has occurred during the period 1899-1900 t 1929-1930 inclusive? How does the percentage change in average daily attendance in New Mexico compare with the percentage change in average daily attendance in the United States as a whole, in the other states, and particularly in the states of the Rocky Mountain area?

2. Did average daily attendance …

Comparison Of Insurance Premiums And Losses On Publicly Owned Property In New Mexico, Irvin P. Murphy

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In this study the following questions are considered.

1. How much was paid in premiums for insurance on public property in New Mexico from 1923 to 1934, inclusive, and how much was repaid to the state by insurance companies for losses to public property during this period. What is the ratio between the premiums and the reimbursement for losses?

2. What is the relationship between the loss ratios on all public property in New Mexico and: (1) public school property in New Mexico; (2) all classes of property in New Mexico; (3) public property in other states; (4) all classes …

Visual Instruction As An Aid In Teaching Geography In The Grammar Grades, Eva May Seivert

Bachelors’ Theses

Visual education, visual instruction, visual aids, visual-sensory aids, etc. are terms rather loosely employed· to label the use of illustrative material and devices in all forms of education. Visual education implies the complete educative process or a distinct subject or purpose classification. Visual aids and visual-sensory aids denote the physical materials and arrangements necessary for the "seeing" experience. Visual instruction emphasizes the value of concrete imagery in the learning process.

The Nature, Need And Value Of School Supervision, Mary Zenobia Zygowicz

Bachelors’ Theses

Supervision in recent years has gained a considerable degree of importance in education; but though its need has been recognized, its value and effectiveness have been questioned. Since it has become one of the essential factors in the progress of education, it deserves to be studied and to be understood. The writer's endeavor in this work is to: 1. Present the various explanations of supervision as given by different educators and exponents of supervision. 2. Trace summarily the historical development of supervision. 3. Point out the factors which render supervision necessary in education. 4. Describe the methods used in the …

The Child In The Modern Kindergarten, Helen June Whalen

Bachelors’ Theses

Provision for children four and five years of age is coming to be recognized as an essential part of our scheme of education. Scientific investigation has shown that many of the undesirable traits in adult life are due to the lack of early training in childhood. The first year of the child's school life is a very important one. It is at this time that boys and girls leave the limited environment of their home for the first time. During their stay in kindergarten they must learn to adapt themselves to a larger group, to be guided by the teacher …

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 Care Of The Deaf In Wisconsin, Howard H. Tilg

Bachelors’ Theses

In ancient times a deaf child was considered useless and, at best, was barely suffered to live. Rome was the first nation to recognize the legal rights of a deaf person, but it was the universal sentiment that he was wholly incapable of instruction.

Insurance Practices Of School Boards In Municipal And County Schools Of New Mexico With Evaluation And Standards, Owen O. Sabin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Since New Mexico schools, exclusive of private schools and higher institutions, spend $135,000 each year for insurance premiums, considerable thought might well be given to the question whether or not this money is wisely spent. The value of insurance is no longer seriously questioned, but as yet few public officials or school administrators seem to recognize that it should be purchased as economically as possible, consistent with good business practices and safety.

The problem undertaken in this study is to discover the practices of New Mexico school boards in the handling of insurance in public school property.

The Mathematics Required In Vocational Courses In Kansas High Schools And A Projected Course Of Study To Meet Those Requirements, Nova Grant Moody

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this investigation is (1) to identify the mathematical knowledge requisite to efficient participation in Kansas high school vocational courses; then (2) to arrange this mathematical knowledge into an outlined course of study for teacher guidance in a mathematics course of unit credit for high school students.

Achievement In Spelling In The Elementary School With And Without The Use Of Textbooks In The Hands Of Pupils, Ernest R. Allbert

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The specific problem of this thesis is to determine the relative worth of two methods of instruction in spelling, namely: (1) achievement in spelling when pupils study the spelling lesson then the words are written on the blackboard, and (2) when the spelling words are studied in the orthodoxy way – from the textbook. In so far as the writer has been able to determine there is little in the literature of education concerning experimental investigations of the relative worth of these two methods.

Legal Status And Trends In Statutory Status Of Public School Teachers In The United States, Amy Jeannette Daniel

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

From Chapter 1

Importance of the Study

To-day in the United States nearly a million persons are employed as teachers in the public schools. The members of this large and important group of employees ore loosely organized, and, therefore, in comparison to many professional or occupational groups, not in a favorable position to pro­mote their own welfare. As a class of public social workers, employed by the state. or by the local school districts as agents of the state, they have long been dependent upon the will of legislators and the wishes or dictates or local com­munities to establish and …

The Open Air Schools, Eleanore A. Madden

Bachelors’ Theses

Open Air Schools for the treatment of delicate children are a product of the twentieth century. They are an off shoot of the sanitorium method of caring for tuberculosis patients. Thirty years ago fresh air was considered the most important factor in the treatment of tuberculosis and though rest and food were also essential factors in such treatment, there seemed to be some special attraction about fresh air which relegated the matter-of-fact procedures of eating and sleeping to positions of less prominence. Perhaps this was a natural reaction from the treatment in vogue before the days of sanitoria, when closed …

How To Teach The Effects Of Force In Producing Motion, Mary Redempta Lucas

Bachelors’ Theses

There are many books which deal either with the teaching of physics in high school or with the teaching of science. Still, very few of these give that specific direction and those helpful suggestions so welcome to a beginning teacher.

The Foster Home Constrasted With Institutional Care For Dependent Children, Jane Elizabeth Gauslin

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is written in an endeavor to show the superiority of foster homes as compared with institutions for the care of dependent children. Children are our most precious heritage, dependent children are equally precious, and they must be given the best care possible. In this thesis, I will attempt to show that good foster home care is the most adequate substitute for a normal home.

Education In American Penal Institutions, Dolores Driscoll Britz

Bachelors’ Theses

The humanizing of penal incarceration has during the present century strode forward in an ever increasing upward trend. We no longer see our prisons merely as instruments of an avenging justice, but rather as a hospital instituted to attend the social ills and maladjustments of the individual. Coupled with and supplemented by this socializing process, has come a new emphasis on the importance of education in the penal institution. It is with this aspect of penology that the thesis is concerned.

Due to the youth of the subject, since education in prisons is still in its childhood, there is a …

Prevention Of Juvenile Delinquency, Calvin William Beckett

Bachelors’ Theses

What causes children to become delinquent? Once the answer to this question is known, we can remove these causes and thus remove delinquency.

This thesis attempts to enumerate the various causes and to give a practical program for the prevention of juvenile delinquency.

Literature In The Kindergarten, Genevieve Marie Farley

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature holds an important place in the curriculum of the Elementary School, of the High School and of the University. It has established itself as a subject of study in the Elementary School.

Spelling, Marguerite Reilly

Bachelors’ Theses

The three thousand seven hundred twenty-three (3,723) basic words in this speller have been taken from a list which Dr. George E. Vanderbeke, Professor of Education and Psychology at Marquette University, compiled from the Coleman Spelling Vocabulary Tests and the Iowa Scales in Spelling. Dr. Vanderbeke showed the percentage of word distribution so that a spelling vocabulary for the grades could be built.

The Teaching Of Latin In High School, M. Speranda Vogelsang

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to give the young teacher of Latin a brief survey of the aims and values of Latin, as well as of the material to be taught in each of the four years. It also contains useful classroom activities.

An Evaluation Of The Louisville Course Of Study In Chemistry In Relation To The Educational And Vocational Interests Of Girls As Discovered Among Pupils Of The Louisville Public Schools From September, 1935 To February, 1937., Pauline Kollmann Stein

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Considerations That Might Influence The Teaching Of Elementary Spanish., Edgar Fernando Hudkins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Relation Between Achievement In Home Economics And Intelligence, Lucy Montgomery

Graduate Thesis Collection

This study is the result of the combination of several factors. It is principally, however, the result of an interest in the relation of grades achieved by students in high school and their intelligence; of experiences in teaching both academic subjects and home economics; and of observing the work of a number of home economics teachers. An interest in the relation of grades and I Q's together with the experiences in teaching and observing home economics classes has brought up the question of the relation between grades achieved by students in this subject and the intelligence of these students as …

Intelligence In Action, Robert A. Gossett

Graduate Thesis Collection

As we look about us and evaluate the many personalities with which we come in contact, we are never sure that our judgments will stand critical survey.  We observe men as they engage in play, we watch them at their work, and we may engage them in conversation.  But with all these contacts, there is always a doubt when we say this man is intelligent and that man is not.  There are intelligence tests by the score, but they are inadequate to cope with this problem for two reasons.

Junior High School Recreational Reading, Martha O. Guilford

Graduate Thesis Collection

As an English teacher in the junior high school grades at Public School No. 44, Indianapolis, Indiana, the writer has, for many years, in connection with her English work, had the privilege of conducting library classes at the South Grove Branch Library.  This library is on the school grounds and is a branch of the Indianapolis Public Library.

Books For Young Americans, Past And Present, Olive K. Funk

Graduate Thesis Collection

When the writer of this dissertation was a little girl she was much intrigued by a gift given her, a small red volume of "Poems for Children," dated 1793.  That together with stories and poems which her grandfather and grandmother well remembered from their few childhood books, and related many times, created an intense and lasting interest in books for children, particularly those dealing with the various forms of literature.

A Study Of The Effect The Economic Disorder Has Had On The Libraries Of Indianapolis, Lorene T, Cook

Graduate Thesis Collection

Problem: How have the libraries in Indiapolis been affected by the economic disorder?
1. What changes have been made in appropriations?
2. What changes have been made in expeditures?
How has enforced leisure affected the use of the libraries?
4. What has been the reaction of the benefactors?

Tenure Of Teachers In Louisiana Elementary Schools., William Hugh Miller

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of College Achievement Examinations In Social Science Through An Analysis Of The Discriminatory Properties Of The Individual Items., John Oliver Pettiss

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Fray Pedro De Gante And Early Education In New Spain, Sarah M. Burns

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The History And Development Of Handwriting From Prehistoric Times To 1925, Lyel M. Hess

Graduate Thesis Collection

This subject was chosen as it is one which the writer teaches in the Junior High School. As it has been allotted such a short time on the week's program, the question arose whether it is worth while to continue the teaching of handwriting. This necessitated the investigation of what handwriting experts think. The study which provided the first three chapters was for the purpose of supplying additional background for any writing teacher.