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Ua64/4 A Progress Report On The Activities Of The Western Kentucky Human Relations Center For Education, Wku Human Relations Center

WKU Administration Documents

Report created by the WKU Human Relations Center regarding activities to provide support and technical assistance to local school districts during the integration process in 1967.

The Relationship Of Educational, Economic & Social Characteristics Of The Degree Of Desegregation In The Public Schools Of Kentucky, J. Frank Yeager

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem in this study was to examine the relationship of social-climate to the degree of desegregation in the public schools of Kentucky. This study attempted to determine the relationship of educational, economic and social characteristics of those school districts with bi-racial student bodies operating in Kentucky and the degree of desegregation experienced voluntarily by those districts during the period from 1955-56 school year through the 1963-64 school year.

Ua8/3/3/9 Mr. Thomas Re: Integration, Thomas

WKU Administration Documents

Presentation given by Mr. Thomas of Caverna High School regarding integration of Kentucky schools at a meeting in Princeton, Kentucky.

Ua64/14 Student Teacher Placement Cards - O Surnames, Wku College Of Education

WKU Administration Documents

This document contains the WKU Placement Bureau cards used to place student teachers in schools around Kentucky. The cards give the students’ name, college, position wanted, number of credits and work history. Some cards have a photograph attached. When the photos are detached they immediately follow the student’s card. This particular file contains cards for students Oakes to Oxford.

Ua64/4 The Western Kentucky Human Relations Center For Education, Wku Human Relations Center

WKU Administration Documents

Working report created by the WKU Human Relations Center regarding the creation of the center and the work proposed to be done in creating a smooth transition from segregation to desegregation in Kentucky schools.

Ua64/14 Student Teacher Placement Cards - T Surnames, Wku College Of Education

WKU Administration Documents

This document contains the WKU Placement Bureau cards used to place student teachers in schools around Kentucky. The cards give the students’ name, college, position wanted, number of credits and work history. Some cards have a photograph attached. When the photos are detached they immediately follow the student’s card. This particular file contains cards for students Tabb through Tynes.

Ua3/3 Today's Image Of The Laboratory School, Kelly Thompson

WKU Administration Documents

Address given by Dr. Kelly Thompson, President of Western Kentucky University at the annual meeting of the Laboratory School Administrators Association in Chicago, Illinois.

Ua100/2/1 Training School Director's Report To The President, Wku Training School

WKU Administration Documents

Report regarding the administration of College High and the Training School at WKU. Includes:

• Training School Faculty & Staff
• Physical facilities
• High school schedule
• Student teaching
• Philosophy & objectives
• Social program
• Academic improvements
• Professional development
• Athletics / Assemblies
• Textbooks
• Accreditation & Statistics
• Honors study hall
• Guidance counselor
• Admissions policies
• Funding

Ua64/14 Student Teacher Placement Cards - I Surnames, Wku College Of Education

WKU Administration Documents

This document contains the WKU Placement Bureau cards used to place student teachers in schools around Kentucky. The cards give the students’ name, college, position wanted, number of credits and work history. Some cards have a photograph attached. When the photos are detached they immediately follow the student’s card. This particular file contains cards for students Igleheart through Ivey.

Ua99/3 Student Card File - B Surnames, Bowling Green Business University Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Student card file created by the Bowling Green Business University Registrar. Includes addresses, graduation and withdrawal dates.

Reorganization Of The Warren County School System, Charles Clemons

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A discussion of how to reorganize the Warren County, Kentucky school system. Includes a description of the Warren County school system in 1957.

A Proposed School System For Metcalfe County, Kentucky, Thomas Butler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to propose for Metcalfe County a school system that will come nearer meeting the standards of a good educational system than the one now in use. It is by no means expected that this proposed system will be perfect and the writer fully realizes that oftentimes a scheme on paper will not work out so well when actually put into practice. However, being acquainted with the amount of money available, the geographic and economic conditions, and the roads of the county it is the best that can be done under existing circumstances.

A Study Of The Eighth Grade Graduates Of Monroe County Schools, Randall Grider

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this thesis, in addition to fulfilling the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, to discuss some of the problems of Monroe County Schools which are common to administrators, supervisors, and teachers. Public funds are appropriated and earmarked for education in order that every child may be provided with an elementary and secondary education.

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 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 …

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. …

Building A Curriculum For The Rineyville School, H. L. Perkins

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

I shall approach this study, both from a survey of the vocation that the students have followed when out of school, and by what they have recommended to be offered in high school. By listing the subjects most needed when out in life, and also a list of the subjects that they would take, should they have their high school days to go over again, should help us to determine just what curriculum to offer.

Reorganization Of Taylor County Schools, Loneta Sublett

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to determine how Taylor County as a unit can best provide equal educational opportunities for the 2,417 boys and girls who are, or should be enrolled in the elementary and secondary schools within the county, and as a result propose reorganization and make general recommendations.

A Study Of The Public School System Of Monroe County, William Goad

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The specific aims of the study are:

1. To survey the schools in Monroe County - the one-room rural schools, the two-teacher schools and the consolidated schools.
2. To show the percentage of attendance and percentage of failure in different schools and the cost per pupil attending.
3. To show the relation between teachers qualifications and teachers pay.
4. To study the transportation system; figuring the cost per pupil per mile.
5. To make general recommendations based on data obtained.

A Plan Of Supervision For Todd County Elementary Schools, Thelma Lyon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem presented in "A Plan of Supervision for Todd County Elementary Schools" deals primarily with an attempt:

1. To present a plan of supervision.
2. To ascertain a means of evaluating supervision.

Improvement Of Todd County Schools In Action, Virginia Hightower

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The object of this survey has been to give an honest, fair and unbiased statement based on the actual conditions in the schools of Todd County, Kentucky. This survey shows the improvements that have been made in the system from July 1, 1934 to the present time. This does not include the Independent Districts of Trenton, Todd County, Kentucky, which is in the southwest section of the county.

School Transportation In Barren County, Kentucky, Giles Williams

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to trace the development of school transportation in Barren County both educationally and financially in order to explain the present facing the school system and to seek possible solutions to these problems.

A Proposed Program Of Accounting For Extracurricular Activity Funds In Kentucky Schools, Samuel Alexander

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Statement of the Problem - The problem of accounting for the funds raised by the various extracurricular activities of a school has been stated by many students of the problem. These writers have dealt principally with the problem of prudent management and control of these funds. The principle of prudence cannot be overlooked in any study of these funds, but closely associated with the principle of prudence are the principles of adaptability and flexibility. The accounting system used should be flexible enough to meet the needs of the student body at any one time and should be of such nature …

A Comparative Study Of Barren County Schools 1938-1950, David Montgomery

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study shows that the school census is dropping rapidly in rural areas. It must be remembered that with the introduction of more labor saving farm machinery and the consolidation of small farms that the end is not in sight.

A greater percentage of children are enrolled in our schools. The percentage of attendance is higher and will continue to slowly improve. As consolidation of small schools progresses, school plants and physical equipment will improve.

Over one-half of the children in average daily attendance are transported. Percentage of enrollment and percentage of attendance are much better in the transported group. …

A Study Of The Eighth Grade Graduates & High School Attendance Of The Larue County Schools, Willis Borden

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The tabulated data used in this study were selected from the files of the superintendent of LaRue County schools.

The teacher's register of attendance for Kentucky schools from 1947 to 1951 were used to determine the eighth grade graduates of that period. Other data were furnished by the high school principals concerning the failures, promotions, and eliminations in their schools.

The purpose of this thesis is to ascertain the reasons for eighth grade graduates not entering high school and the number of years the eighth grade graduates who entered high school remained in membership. The years considered are 1947 to …

A Proposed Merger Of The Hopkins County School System & The Madisonville Independent School System, Lewis Good

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study is planned to determine the conditions in the Hopkins County Schools, and show how a remedial program was set up by the Hopkins County Board of Education to meet the challenges of modern school needs. There is much to be done and no one is more cognizant of this fact than the writer. It will take a great deal of patience, time and money to bring the program as planned to a successful conclusion.

A Study Of The Eighth Grade Graduates Of The Barren County Schools, Lenis Reece

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this survey is to help determine how many children are dropping out of school each year and why. One objective is to see what can be done to help the holding power of the schools in Barren County and to continue its growth.

A Survey Of The Bullitt County School System, J. O. Ward

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis on a survey of the school system of Bullitt County is being made for the purpose of recommending consolidation of the high schools and of larger grade centers.

Study Of Non-Enrollment & Absences In Kentucky, Mitchell Davis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

During the school year 1944-45, the Division of Census and. Attendance of the Kentucky State Department of Education attempted to find the answer to two very important and timely questions concerning school enrollment and attendance in the state. These two questions were first, 'Why do children fail to enroll in school?" and second, 'Why do children fail to attend regularly after they do enroll?"

Survey forms were prepared and sent to all of the 257 school districts in the state, calling for the number of census children by age, grade, sex and race not enrolled in school and why they …

Reorganization Of Spencer County, Kentucky School System, C. L. Francis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To study present school system of Spencer County and to devise a plan of reorganization of present system in order to provide a well rounded educational opportunity for the boys and girls of Spencer County, Kentucky. The consideration of this problem are:

1. Comparison of teacher qualifications in the types of schools.
2. Computation of enrollment, average daily attendance of the various types of schools.
3. Determination cost per pupil and total cost of operation of present school system and reorganized school system as salary of teacher, maintenance, transportation and needed buildings.
4. Provision for free transportation of all high school pupils.