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Cost records and reports for public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
What is the efficiency of the school system? This is the first question asked when a consideration of the money spent in the past, or what should be spent in the future, on that particular system, is taken up. To determine ...
Investigation in the teaching of elementary mathematics from the standpoint of choice and arrangement of subject matter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
To one engaged in the teaching profession, or even to a laymen who has come into contact with the educational system of the present time, it is scarcely necessary to present evidences of dissatisfaction regarding the results ...
Economical learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The great change in our economic life in the last decade has forced its demands for greater skill and more economical methods upon man in every walk of life. These demands have in part been met and satisfied, but much is ...
Tendencies to emphasize practical problems in the teaching of physics in secondary schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
Perhaps no subject in the secondary school curriculum has greater possibilities than the subject of physics. Most of the sciences are more or less dependent upon it. Not a single one can stand alone. Indeed, approximately ...
The principles underlying the selection of a course of study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The problem of this study is to find the principles that should underlie the selection of the school curriculum. It is not a scientific investigation of the social and psychological facts upon which the course of study ...
A course in elementary high school biology within the students environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This thesis is an attempt at the solution of a problem which has grown out of some discouragements and difficulties experienced in connection with three years of teaching biological sciences to first year high school ...
A critical review of the theory of education in Plato's Republic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Plato, in a sense, outlines two systems of education. He first states and, with a few minor changes, accepts the traditional education of the Greek people. Later he outlines an original system of his own which is to follow ...
Observation one of the activities in the third grade of the University elementary school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In various forms Nature-study has become a part of the curriculum of the schools, often holding an equal place with the "Three R's". Frequently the usual studies are too remote from the daily lives of the children to be ...
Elementary agriculture for city high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The experience of teaching Agriculture in the high school for a number of years has impressed upon the writer the need of a more careful selection of material than is indicated by most of the text book in Elementary ...
Historical data in the study of present-day problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
Anyone who has read, in educational literature of recent years, the endless discussions as to what is the proper plan of studying history in the high school, or what is the chief aim of the study, whether history should ...
The manual arts as an illustrative factor in history and geography in the upper grades
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The experiments herein described were undertaken for the purpose of discovering to what extent the Manual Arts could be used profitably, under ordinary school-room conditions, in illustrating history and geography in grades ...
The incidental teaching of English composition in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
At the present time, when the efficiency of every department of school work is being questioned, when real improvement is being made in the school as an adequate preparation for life, the question of the value of formal ...
Teaching of physics in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
There is much unrest as to physics instruction in the high schools, as evidenced by the many and varied discussions of methods of teaching that subject. No phase of the question has been overlooked, laboratory methods, ...
High school records and reports
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
School reports published annually are compiled from the records and reports made during the school year, and unless there is something of uniformity in the records and reports kept by the various schools, the reports ...
Mental tests of school children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The gradation and classification of pupils, the nature of the curriculum and methods of teaching, have long been vital questions for educators. The mental measuring rods for classification and promotion which have been ...
A study in sentence structure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The present study is a report of the results of the attempted correction of eighteen types of grammatical errors through the "incidental method" of teaching composition. This method as opposed to the "Formal Method" is ...
The mental and physical development of rural children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
A. Problem: Are there any fundamental differences between rural and urban children in mental and physical growth and development? If there are differences, are they due to the inborn nature of the children, or to environment? ...
Practical problems depending upon principles of geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
One of the recent questions in education deals with the efficiency of our secondary schools. The question is of vital importance to all classes of educators, but to no class is it more pertinent than to the High School ...
Philosophy of Horace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
In a treatise on the philosophy of Horace it is necessary to discuss the following problems: 1) What did Horace know of the different philosophical systems? 2) To what extent do the works of Horace contain references to ...
History of the academy in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
The demand for the academy in Missouri was the same as the demand for it in any other western state - a popular demand for secondary education. This demand was along several lines; first it was to inculcate special forms ...