The purpose of this research study is to identify how being an undocumented student has affected the undergraduate academic experiences of current graduate students. This study exhibits narratives from four students who have earned a bachelor’s degree . . .

The use of standardized achievement tests flourishes in the American educational landscape. First developed in the United States by Joseph Mayer Rice in the 1880's, the standardized test has one primary function, to compare the efforts of an exa . . .

The education of America's children has been a concern of educators and lay people since our nation was created. It has been an ongoing concern which has tried to focus on meeting the needs of each child. And yet, even though the concern for ind . . .

The early concept of the school principal did not develop from this little red schoolhouse setting for there was little need for administration in the sense that we know it today. The local school board would hire one teacher who would usually have t . . .

Each year, high school students across the nation enroll in first-year shorthand, generally with the thought of becoming a secre- tary. Unfortunately, most of these high schools do not provide a formal procedure for counselors to follow in plac . . .

North Fork is a small lumber town situated in the foothills of eastern Madera County, California. The town lies sixty miles south of Yosemite National Park, at the border of the yellow pine forest. Logging, public utility companies, and the United Sta . . .

There is an apparent need for effective and realistic vocational rehabilitation services for the handicapped and disabled. In the development and promotion of these services, there is a growing concern for establishment of effective "In-Service Traini . . .

Though education is defined as a function of the state, the bulk of the decisions and policies that govern the operation of schools are made on the school district level. The quality of the educational offering that results is as varied as the dis . . .

A major area of interest to today's educator is the influence of early environment on the child's school achievement. Literature in early childhood education is involved in the debate over assumptions about the relationship between various stages of d . . .

This nation, thousands of miles in width and breadth, attempts offer an education to children and youth of every economic, ethnic, and cultural background. The enormity of the task to provide quality educational opportunity for every child in Am . . .

Vocational placement is a necessary goal for our modern educational system. Placing the right person on the right job is a matter of coordinating educational and vocational planning carefully and accurately. Personality characteristics are impor . . .

Open education, the integrated day, the develop- mental classroom, informal education: these phrases refer to an educational movement that began in England and that is now growing in the United States. The traditional classrooms which exist in . . .

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in the understanding of mental retardation, early identification and diagnosis, education and training, prevention and treat- ment, and research. However, most mentally retarded persons are said to . . .

The need for counselors to justify their existence in today's (1974) secondary school programs is for the most part unnecessary. School counselors have become accepted and integral members of the school staff. Evidence of this acceptance can be fou . . .

As early as 1925, Frederick Maurice Hunter, Superintendent of Schools, Oakland, California, indicated that principles of good school administration require the building principal to be the officer-in-chief of his school. The principal was to be rec . . .

Education today is being held accountable for its many programs and activities it is using to educate its students. Community colleges' educational and vocational programs are constantly evaluated by using their graduates' successes as a measuring . . .

The pattern of attendance in American higher education is undergoing significant changes. Each year fewer students who graduate from high school in the spring enter college immediately in the fall and continue their enrollment on an uninterrupted . . .

The culture of the United States today puts a great amount of importance on sex. Contained in this society are people who buy, via sexualization, be it a new car or a type of deodorant, and at the same time "clear-cut information on typical contem . . .

This is an era of accountability, and science is an enigma to the general populace. Beginning with the first Sputnik in 1957, there was an almost overwhelming stress on science education. However, starting about 1968, the glow began to fade, and it . . .

This study was predicated upon the assumption that a better understanding of teacher and student attitudes toward elementary school subjects would assist educators in viewing more realistically the complexity of the educational experience in which . . .

American education must accept the professional task of recognizing and accepting culturally different students who enter our schools and promote an appreciation for these diverse cultures in this culturally diverse and complex society. Wayson (19 . . .

The identification and assessment of the self concept is a subject that has received considerable attention in theoretical writings and related research. Attention to this specific subject has not been limited to contemporary studies. Behavioral s . . .

The purpose of this study was to develop a home intervention program for preschool developmentally disabled children. The importance of early intervention, and procedures being followed to provide inter- vention and their effectiveness were inves . . .

With the growing emphasis being placed upon the creatively gifted student and the field of creativity in general, teachers are increasingly being asked to help their students realize their creative potential. Considerable research has been publish . . .

The acquisition of verbal strength starts long before the child begins his formal education, and the schools have little or no control over individuals or institutions who influence his language development. In the home, for example, a child learns . . .

"The application of knowledge for socially useful ends often is preceded by the theoretical development of a science." Successful theoretical development in the sci- ences has led academic psychologists to search for the basic laws governing l . . .

We in this country currently live at a time and in a land that rings of a strange paradox. Tulare County, California, could be considered a prime example of this present day contradiction. On the one hand, it is a county that has been consistently am . . .

One of the most important and characteristic forms of human behavior is language; its importance in human affairs has been recognized since the beginning of history.When each of the social sciences developed, it encountered language problems within . . .

This is a comparative study of the roles of the secondary school principal in Thailand and in the United States. This investigator serves in Thailand as a school principal and manager. Sithammarat Suksa is the name of that school. It is one of the . . .

The Board of Trustees of the Selma (California) Unified School District in September of 1973 authorized a Community Congress on Education. The Community Congress was constituted to involve a broad cross section of the people of the Selma area. Invitat . . .

The importance of a positive self concept and the relationship between self concept and academic success is being widely discussed in the field of education. The idea of implementing programs that will foster positive self concepts into the yearly . . .

"Teachers struck in Minneapolis, Minn., Muskogee, Okla. , and Butte, Mont., as Los Angeles teachers voted over- whelmingly to quit their classrooms This quotation is the first sentence of an article in the April 20, 1970, U, S. News and World . . .

The main focus of study in this paper was the actual use and practice of games in the teaching of kindergarten children. One way to assess the practical use of games is an analysis of the actual use in kindergarten programs of games as a method of . . .

With the tightening of the job market it is becoming increasingly apparent that prospective employees must become diversified in order to qualify within selected job areas to provide increased opportunities for employment. One specific job area wh . . .

Improvement of what goes on in the classroom has been the eternal goal of teacher training institutions and inservice programs for teachers working in the classroom. The Stull Bill and all its implications for goal setting, writing the objectives, . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

Before an educator can teach any subject successfully he must have some theory as to how his students learn. This theory can be developed from a study of the psychologies of learning that are applicable in education. After carefully considering th . . .

The process of bringing work and laborer together goes back in man's history beyond the records of civiliza- tion. The first large-scale "employment" of people was probably through the institution of slavery. The first source of labor supply . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

In recent years mankind has been involved in major social problems. In the United States involvement with social problems has existed within persons and within groups, and between persons and between groups. The energies of our populace, whether m . . .

A few years ago a college degree was the key to a wide variety of career positions. Today, it is not uncommon to hear of the glutted job market in fields such as teaching, social welfare and engineering. Students are looking for positions which wi . . .

Since the early 1950's much research has been carried on relative to creativity demonstrated by human subjects. The work of" many behavioral scientists has opened new avenues of thinking regarding the make-up of human intelligence. J. Paul Guilfor . . .

There are various ideas concerning what role guidance should play within the school organisation. One point of view* which stresses the individual in his uniqueness, is concerned with helping youth develop self-concepts involving realistic self-und . . .

During the years until World War II public school education retained many of the moral and spiritual teachings which were found in the earlier private schools. There was much leniency toward prayer and Bible reading in the classroom, as well as towa . . .

Since 2007, the California State University (CSU) system has partaken in two initiatives in the past: Access to Success and the Graduation Initiative 2015. These initiatives laid the foundation for the most recent initiative, the Graduation Initiati . . .

On September 1, 1924, F. J. Lee, General Overseer of the Church of God,"'" wrote: "In making up the program for the Assembly, I thought it would be well to have something concerning the young people . . . This is what Charles W. Conn, a former Gen . . .

Mexican Americans are a segment of the rural poor. These low income people face uniquely complex problems. Often they do not speak English; their children are virtually un- touched by existing school programs; their lack of job skills and the incr . . .

The question of how best to provide an environment which enhances the probability of a superior education for children in the schools has plagued educational leaders for decades. Governing boards and their administrative agents have long pondered . . .

Project Follow-Through is a federally-funded five year effort to sustain and supplement in the early grades the gains made by low-income children who have had a full year's experience in a Head Start or Preschool program. In Fresno, California, th . . .