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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...
"The purpose of this investigation was to explore, in a general way, the relationship between selected work-study skills and certain aspects of creative expression, through drawing and painting, of children in a fourth grade class"-...
"Meaning is given to a philosophy not through the mere acquisition of facts but in addition to facts, a certain spirit of open-mindedness of work and a search for causes. In the attempt of school personnel in Walton County to achieve...
This paper concerns the development of the instructional program in Broward County, Florida, from 1941 to the present. The purposes of the paper are, briefly, as follows: (1) to give the reader a general knowledge of the manner in which...
The first school reported ever to have been held in Marathon was held in a box car when Flagler was building his famous overseas extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad. Mrs. R. H. Miller, the teacher of this first school, visited...
"This paper is an account of a project which began primarily as an attempt to set up an activity program that would result in a high degree of accuracy in computational operations. It soon became evident that the activity was serving as...
"The writer has come to believe that much of the discussion in faculty meetings on the topic 'How to Improve Evaluation of Pupil Progress' has centered too much on the mechanics of reporting, that is, upon a debate regarding the form and...
The word evaluation, according to the definition given in the dictionary means "to appraise carefully". The Fletcherville School faculty has found, in the course of its study to date, that the word implies much more. It means now, among...
The need for successful grouping of children in the primary school has been personally felt by the writer of this paper many times in her own classroom. In the years that have passed, some groups have seemed to progress quite...
The purpose of this study is to summarize, document and evaluate information and facts about the growth and development of children necessary to give each child experiences that have meaning, purpose and value. Chapter I discusses the...
"It is the purpose of this paper, therefore, to show how in Florida's Program of Studies in the Elementary School science and social studies are related to each other. It will be urged that these subjects should be so related as to...
In our culture today so much depends upon one being able to understand what is happening inthe community and also the larger units of society. Much of this understanding is gained through one's reading ability. It is the responsibility...
The public relations program of any school is vitally important to the success of the total program. As practical psychologists, members of the staff must know and apply the principles of successful public relations. If the public is...
"It is within the framework of the objects of the Parent-Teacher Association that the writer of this paper has projected his thinking about what might be done to promote parent-teacher understanding. The main purpose to be served by the...
"Chapter I presents the setting, background, purposes and procedures for this paper. Certain facts concerning the nature of the school-community population in the Chaires area are regarded as pertinent for understanding the problem. The...
Art is basic to all phases of living, regardless of the nature of the particular society. The arts, when considered in their complete scope, become an integral function of life--a function so closely a part of living it cannot be...
Probably the most frequently quoted statement justifying the provision of school lunch services is that made by former Surgeon-General Thomas Parran some years ago when he said, We are wasting our money trying to teach children with...
To those familiar with schools, it is quite obvious that there is a definite problem of dropouts, and that this is particularly acute with those whose ability and interest do not fit them for the average school curriculum. Slow learners...
"Of all the problems that confront the forces of education today, none seems more pressing or of greater importance than that of securing and retaining an adequate number of properly trained teachers to carry forward the tremendous...
The teaching of science is a continuous process. It is closely related to every activity of the school day. The elementary teacher with little or no scientific background may utilize these wide and varied daily experiences in the...
"Out of genuine desire to prepare oneself to handle, in a more effective way, the teaching of eighth grade mathematics, there comes to mind such questions as these: 1. What are the needs or tasks or problems of eighth grade pupils to...
"A Florida legislator, speaking about the apparent neglect of the 'Three R's', recently said, 'If one-third of the efforts being expanded in getting more appropriations for schools was used to see that children get these basic skills,...
The purpose of this paper is to give a descriptive and somewhat analytical statement of the work of a county supervisor of instruction. Involved in this task is the validation through authoritative sources of the social and psychological...
After many years of teaching experience in a school where good citizenship prevailed among the students, it has been rather surprising recently to find that standards of conduct formerly observed are being disregarded. It has been noted...
The need for arithmetic is well nigh universal. Children and adults are continuously confronted with situations involving "how many" and "how much." The "how-manyness" and "how-muchness" of situations lead to the need for counting and...
The paper reports progress in the Millville Elementary School, Panama City, Florida, in the three year period from July 1, 1949 to July 1, 1952. During this time the faculty attempted to secure information relative to the situation, ...
There was no compulsory school attendance legislation in Florida before 1915 although the state Superintendent had recommended the adoption of such legislation as early as 1895. The legislation adopted in 1915 was a makeshift act with no...
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