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This paper is an attempt to show how classroom teachers can translate democracy into action. By the use of a few carefully selected experiences and situations, the writer has hoped to make clear some of the commonly accepted principles...
The object of education in the United States is development of the human being as a person and as a citizen in a democracy. In high school that person is a youth--one whose needs for development are common to the democratic tradition of...
For many years scholars, educators, and internationally minded social workers have tried to find a common denominator of understanding for the many varied languages and customs of the earth. While most of these efforts have failed, there...
"Education, to which so much importance is attached in our democratic society, is of doubtful value if it does not produce people who can think clearly in quantitative terms about the social problems affecting the nation and themselves....
The improvement of critical thinking ability among university students is widely accepted as a goal of higher learning. However, as an objective it frequently remains loosely defined in curriculum, and there is little agreement regarding...
The general supervisor for Seminole County works co-operatively with the supervisor of negro schools who directs the instructional program in the negro schools. Consequently, this study is limited to a consideration of the facilities in...
"The purpose of this study is to collect data concerning the graduates of Climax High School which will determine to some extent the usefulness of training they received, and which will be helpful in the planning of a curriculum for...
Selected aspects of educational philosophy with particular reference to their implementation in the basic education program at Jinks Junior High School, Panama City, Florida
Every teacher has what he assumes to be a philosophy of education; frequently it is a composite of aspects of conflicting philosophies of education. This philosophy may be virtually unexamined in that little thought is given to its...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the curriculum and organization of the Liberty County High School in order to discover to what extent the needs of the students are met. Although subjects have been added when possible and...
A study for the planning of a curriculum at Jay High School in Santa Rosa County, based on the idea that school work should be linked to its larger community.
"Within these pages I shall attempt to identify the relationship between physical, mental, and social development and a suitable reading program to satisfy the needs of the average child in the sixth grade. In so doing, it becomes...
The unemployment rate is very high in Kenya, with approximately 25% of the youth between the ages of 15 and 25 being currently unemployed (GOK, 2007). Some entrepreneurship education scholars believe that entrepreneurship education can...
"Administrators trying to use more cooperative planning in their school systems are urged on all sides to do this and to do that. The writer felt there was a need for analysis of what has been said, together with some examples of what...
In this study the writer intends to examine the literature on the purposes of the school and society as they are served by cooperative planning, select some of the best that has been said in regards to cooperative planing and to point up...
The purpose of this study is to show the close relationship of music education to the total elementary school program. The need for such a study has been recognized by many music educators since it is commonly conceded that music...
When school opens each year, the children of America start to elementary school, approximately 26, 000, 000 strong, in schools that are small, medium, large in size with all types of desks, in buildings that are adequately or inadequately...
In order to answer in what ways the teaching of reading in Portuguese at an English-Portuguese Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program is supportive of the home language and minority culture in a biliterate community during the very...
The curriculum exists not in books and bulletins, but in the experiences of children, guided and directed by the school, Schools must be concerned, therefore, with materials and methods best adapted to providing the kind of experiences...
The value of speech training in the public schools is not yet fully realized by educators. Perhaps speed has been ignored because almost every one in some way speaks. Fifty years ago speech training was an isolated course for a few...
"The purpose of this study was to determine expressed interest of high school seniors in Polk County in a Home Economics curriculum at Polk Community College. Florida rapidly expanded its post-high school educational programs in the 1950...
That motion pictures are effective stimulators of the mind is a fact which seems to be generally accepted by many people. In accepting this belief school administrators have wisely turned to the sound film as an aid in teaching. However...
"The problem of this study is to show how the sudden tremendous increase in the population of this community, resulting in an unpredictable overloaded classroom situation, has affected this individual school by (1) the retardation of all...
"First and foremost in the drama of education is the social scene in which it is enacted. The school is in the midst of all the elements of this scene--the soil and climate; the land, the streams, minerals and timber; the people, black...
There is a pattern of students' mathematics achievement scores dropping in the first year of middle school, typically sixth grade in Florida (fldoe.org, 2014). Sixth grade is of particular interest as this is typically a transition year...
"It is the purpose of the writer to explore, through this paper, the field of materials of instruction in order to ascertain how a supervisor of instruction in a small rural county might work effectively so as to improve the learning...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of modified schema-based instruction (MSBI) on teaching post-secondary adolescents with extensive support needs (ESN) mathematical problem solving in a multiple probe across...
Research on Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT), and learning has developed significantly in recent years. As a result of the popularity of TBLT, numerous studies in second language acquisition (SLA) have explored the effect of task...
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