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History Of Mountain View School, Thelma Loudon Hayes

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study (1) to relate the unusual early history of Mountain View School; (2) to show the steady advancement in education of the local community; (3) to present the value of this undertaking in regard to adult educational and social benefits as well as pupil benefits; and (4) to determine what benefits a community derives from possessing a good elementary school.

The Financial Administration Of Extracurricular Activities In The Public High Schools Of New Mexico, Frank Edmund Graham

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study has as its purpose the investigation of methods currently practiced in raising funds to provide for the financial support of extracurricular activities in the public high schools of New Mexico. Of these plans the most feasible are proposed for the use of those responsible for the financial administration of extracurricular activities.

A History Of The Oklahoma Association Of Negro Teachers, Jeanette C. Miller

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The steady growth in the Negro school population has brought a correspondingly increasing interest by Negro educators in raising the standard of education in the race. The educators saw the need for education association which would unite them for a common cause, that of helping to secure for the Negro child more adequate school facilities, and advancing them educationally. This study deals with a history of one such organization and its aims and objectives in fostering a program of education for the Negros in the state of Oklahoma.

Teachers' Leaves Of Absence For Cultural Purposes And Exchange, Eleanor Janice Beck

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to make a detailed inquiry into the matter of granting teachers' leaves of absence for cultural purposes and exchange in representative public school systems of the United States, with special reference to the prevalence of the practice and the administrative details involved in the handling of the program.

A Survey Of Art Education In The Secondary Schools Of New Mexico, Eugene Lincoln Thomson

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to evaluate the art program as it exists today in the secondary schools of New Mexico. More than simply a survey of statewide conditions, this study will also present some suggestions for an art curriculum in schools not now offering art, together with recommended physical facilities and qualifications of the instructor.

The art program which is investigated in this study does not embrace the arts of music or the dance. Reference to the fields of drama and household arts shall be restricted to such items as stagecraft, costume design, and interior decoration. Quality …

Teacher Participation In The Formulation Of Administrative Policies In The Public Schools Of New Mexico, Clarence Elvin Walter

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of active teacher participation in formulating certain administrative policies in the municipal and independent rural public schools of New Mexico.

Contributions Of Catholic Religious Orders To Public Education In New Mexico Since The American Occupation, Frederick Mason Bacon

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study is intended (1) to explain how it came to pass that religious orders have been conducting public schools in New Mexico, (2) to reveal the outcome of controversies or litigation involving claims of illegality in the practice, and (3) to present the contributions of Catholic religious orders to public education in New Mexico since the American occupation by offering a brief history of the public schools which they have conducted.

The Reorganization Of Hopkins County Schools, John Adams

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Purpose of the study - Educators and lay citizens alike, in the main, want the schools to extend their services so as to meet all the educational needs of the youth. Surveys of the schools in the Hopkins County District in recent years have convincingly revealed that these services are not being rendered. At the suggestion of the Hopkins County School Superintendent H.W. Wilkey, and others this study is being made.

This is an intensive study of the schools of Hopkins County as they exist today, with suggestions for a plan of reorganization to bring them to the point of …

The Stuff Of Which Peace Is Made, A. J. Foy Cross

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

This isn't a discussion of whether we spend too much or too little for education. The true American patriot would spend his last dollar to insure our democracy as our way of life. Through armed force we have reffirmed our right to live in a democratic society, but only through exended public education can we be assured that our people will continue to want to live in a democracy and that thev will know how to live in the American way. America for these reasons can afford free public education at any cost. This is, rather than a discussion of …

A Critical Analysis Of Report Cards Used In New Mexico, John Robert Grove

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Many of the ties that used to bind the home and school are gone. The home and the school no longer have the feeling of intimacy that prevailed between them two hundred years ago. In the early American schools it was possible for the teacher to know the parents of nearly every child in the school room. Since this possibility no longer exists in the same degree, some link must be evolved to connect both the home and the school; some method to take the place of meetings on the street or conversations after prayer meeting must be organized to …

The Administration Of Equitation In The Colleges And Universities Of The Southwest, Birdie Bryan West

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine the status and extent of instruction in equitation in the colleges and universities of the southwest.

The History Of Saint Vincent Academy, Sister Florita French

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to write a complete history of Saint Vincent Academy from the coming of the Sisters of Charity to the west, in 1865, to the present.

Status Of The Classroom Teacher In Taos County, New Mexico, Arthur Cadmus Davis

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this investigation, as stated in the opening chapter, is to explore the status of the classroom teachers employed in Taos County, New Mexico. In the past five chapters an analysis of the data from those teachers participating has been made, averages computed, and tendencies noted.

A Study Of The Choice Of Level Of Occupation In Relation To Achievement On The New Mexico Statewide Test Of Academic Achievement., Mildred L. Pierce

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The problem studied in this thesis is the relation of the level of occupational choice to the level of achievement on a general scholarship test administered to high school seniors by the University of New Mexico in 1941.

An Analysis Of The School Bond Transcript In New Mexico, M. E. Linton

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to bring together all the laws pertaining to, or having a bearing on the issuance of school bonds, analyze them as to content, and recommend a transcript outline which should greatly simplify the legal procedures.

A History Of The Public Schools Of Raton, New Mexico, Carson Creecy

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Educational literature is singularly lacking in studies of the actual development of typical school systems. This raises the question of whether such a study would be of any value as a contribution to educational literature. If the interest manifested by all school people who had a part in the preparation of this study can be used as a measure, then both an interest and a need are felt.

The Division Of Responsibility In The Financial Administration Of Municipal And Independent Schools In New Mexico, Horace P. Brunell

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study (1) to learn as nearly as possible the different procedures followed in the handling of all fiscal items in the municipal schools of New Mexico; (2) to compare those procedures with those recommended by accepted present-day authorities upon financial phases of public school administration; and (3) to make such recommendations as may secure a greater degree of uniformity and increased efficiency in the field of fiscal procedure in the municipal schools of New Mexico.

History Of Education In Quay County, New Mexico, Willard W. Moon

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

No comprehensive history of education in Quay County, New Mexico, has been written. Because of the diversity of interests, people of this section have devoted little time to gathering, organizing, and interpreting the materials of history. There must be soon come, however, an insistent demand for such movement. No people can afford to remain ignorant of its past life and the means by which its institution have grown. This study is limited to the educational institutions of what is now Quay County, New Mexico. It is the desire of the writer to portray the educational development as it is, and …

Early Schools Of Doña Ana County, James Victor Boyd

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Early Schools of Doña Ana County

A Survey Of The Need For A Program Of Safety Education In The Public Schools Of New Mexico, Elizabeth Sherbino

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to determine whether a need for safety education exists in New Mexico. In order to determine this need two types of information have been secured: first, that pertaining to the kinds of safety measures that have been instituted in the state down to the present time; second, the numbers of accidents, deaths, and injuries. These last have been arranged into types of causes in order to show and to determine if possible what steps might be taken to reduce this number.

A Proposed Plan For The Reorganization Of The Rural Schools Seminole County, Oklahoma, In The Face Of Diminishing Revenues, Dale Rogers

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Statement of the Problem. It will be the purpose of this study to make a survey of the conditions existing in the schools of Seminole County, Oklahoma, at the present time, to make a survey of the conditions that existed before discovery of oil, to make as careful an analysis as possible of the existing factors which might show what conditions will exist in the future, and, from a consideration of these conditions, to formulate a proposed plan of organization that will enable these schools to continue to function at the present rate of efficiency after the revenue from oil …

Occupational Status Of High School Graduates, J. W. Drake

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In recent years there has been a feeling among some educators that the secondary school was failing to equip its graduates with any practical training, either as a preparation for courses of higher learning or for professions. One of the broad purposes of this study was to determine to what degree of the graduates of Fountain High School, Fountain, Colorado, have been able to cope with the economic and social conditions of life.

A Study Of The Teacher Placement Bureau Of The University Of New Mexico From 1929 To 1938, David H. Boyles

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In meeting the problem of securing qualified teachers in the past ten years New Mexico school administrators have shown a trend toward greater use of the institutional teacher placement bureaus. It is a purpose of this report to show to what extent the University is accepting the responbility of knowing the state's occupational needs, of selecting youth according to their abilities for fulfilling the varying needs, of aiding leaders in the field in making replacements and additions, of supplying adequate and proper preparation, of placing their graduates in positions, and of providing opportunities for their continued study and preparation.

A History Of Teacher Certification In New Mexico, Roy Melugin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the specific purpose of this study (1) to present the history of teacher certification in New Mexico; (2) to show what progress has thus far been made in education within the the state through means of teacher certification; (3) to compare the present practices in New Mexico with those in neighboring states; and (4) to determine the possible future trends.

Costs Of The Various Subject Fields In The High Schools Of Grady County, Oklahoma, Claude M. Welch

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to endeavor to answer these questions:

1. Which subjects cost most per student uni-credit?

2. Which subjects rank low in cost?

3. What is the relation between the size of the school according to average daily attendance and cost?

4. To which subjects is the larger portion of the total number of student hours devoted?

5. Which subjects are getting the largest share of the funds spent for education? Which are getting the least?

6. Are the subjects to which are devoted the largest portions of the total student hours also drawing the …

A Study Of Pupil Elimination In The Public High Schools Of San Juan County, New Mexico, Grace Barker Wilson

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In view of the current interest in the elimination of pupils from the public schools, the question arises, can the schools justify themselves in seeking to hold the pupils longer. In a close search for some authoritative statements an overwhelming amount of theory was found, but almost nothing of really concrete import.

Trends In Rules And Regulations Governing School Building Construction In The United States, William Benjamin Castetter

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this investigation is to provide a comparative basis in order to show trends in compulsory regulations governing school building construction in the United States.

A Study Guide For A Course In Senior High School Health, C. H. Robinson

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Since the workbook is a comparatively recent development, it is advisable to give a comprehensive review of its inception, growth, and acceptance. Conservatives are inclined to look askance upon innovations in every field, and as this is particularly true in the field of education, widely differing opinions have been presented in my discussion of the problem.

New Mexico State Common School Funds Sources And Distribution, Zebedeo Garcia

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study is to reveal how the present system of financing the common schools in New Mexico operates by pointing out the sources of revenue and by showing how the various funds for the maintenance of public common schools are distributed. Due consideration will be given to the operation of the present equalization law. An attempt will also be made to answer the much discussed question of whether or not this law penalizes those counties having the highest ratios of tax levy.

A Study Of The Extension Division Of The University Of New Mexico, With Emphasis On The Period 1928-1938, W. Barnie Caton

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The first ten year period in the history of the Extension Division of the University of New Mexico ended in September, 1938. This study is an attempt to examine the available data and present accurate information concerning the activities of the division over this first ten-year period in light of the two objectives set forth by the division. These objectives are: ample opportunity for all who are interested in doing credit work by extension to do so, and general stimulation of and opportunity for personal improvement study off-campus.