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Shady Brook Elementary students take part in nationwide education program

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Shady Brook Elementary studying artists such as O'Keefee, Renoir and Dali and reproductions made by the elementary students. Students at Shady Brook Elementary use the hallways like galleries, when new work goes up the old comes down. Shady Brooke is one of the thirty-six elementary schools nationwide that accepted to take part in the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge and will receive $200,000 to support the program.
Date: [1997..]
Creator: Rogness, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Portfolio The Newsletter of Arts Propel]

Description: Portfolio, a newsletter of Arts Propel, Vol. 1, No. 1. This is the first issue of a newsletter edited by Dennie Wolf and published by Harvard Project Zero. The newsletter is for the collaborative project titled Arts Propel, whose primary goal is assessing student achievement in art and art education, along with art humanities. The newsletter will act as the projects primary source of information in regards to updates and achievements by the project.
Date: February 23, 1987
Creator: Arts Propel
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Program trains elementary teachers in Art of Learning

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article about Carolyn Sherburn. Sherburn was the only art specialist at Burton Hill Elementary which was the only Fort Worth school taking part in a project to implement art education throughout the general curriculum. Sherburn along with two other Fort Worth teachers took eighteen weeks of training, where she will in turn teach more than one-hundred teachers from forty-two schools how to implement art education. The article goes into details about how discipl… more
Date: July 21, 1993
Creator: Deller, Martha
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Dallas school officials welcome plans to rebuild elementary art programs

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the Dallas Independent School District having plans to rebuild its fine arts program in elementary schools. Their proposed budget of $620,000 will be to add seventeen art and music teachers and to expand the elementary school band programs.
Date: June 13, 1994
Creator: Bleiberg, Larry
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Arts" newspaper clipping]

Description: A scanned newspaper clipping, featuring an article about the arts. Thirty-six U.S. schools, including Brook Elementary School in Bedford, will share a five-year, $15 million dollar grant for intensive arts program. The goal of the Arts Partner Schools effort, sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation, the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the National Arts Education consortium, is to measure the academic performance of the students at these thirty-six schools. The grant will pay to train t… more
Date: [1990..]
Creator: Deller, Martha
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Toward a Rationale for Music Education in the Public School Context Framed with both Progressive and Essentialist Considerations: Operationalizing the Ideas of William Chandler Bagley

Description: In music education, aesthetic education and praxial music education serve as two major, guiding philosophical frameworks, yet supporters of each often conflict with one another. Furthermore, both are slightly problematic with respect to the specific context of the public school. Each framework is primarily music-based, however, music education has existed in the wider context of general education since the 1830s. Given the recent core-status designation for music education, as part of all fi… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Price, Benjamin J., 1980-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Watch Out, Arnold

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of elementary school boys Nathan Wood (flexing), and Joel Grimm during the "Living Paintings" program at Sam Houston Elementary School. The program was presented by third graders of historical events, people and places.
Date: November 13, 1992
Creator: Denton Record-Chronicle
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Rural Women and Development: A Study of Factors Affecting Participation of Rural Women in Nonformal Education Programs in Thailand

Description: This study identified and analyzed factors which affect the participation of rural women in nonformal education programs. These factors were linked to the national program for rural women. Document analysis and unstructured interviews of policy personnel were used to describe national policies for educational programs for women, the status of women's participation in those programs, and issues that influence women's education. Participant observation and unstructured interviews were employed to… more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Lohitwisas, Snong
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Learning On the Job

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on administrators in San Francisco who took inventory on the school system's professional-development offerings and how they're spending close to $18 million a year on programs and projects. However, without high-quality professional development the push to replicate effective reform strategies can be doomed. The rest of the article details about changes in the public system to conserve money but maintain their professional development programs.
Date: February 15, 1995
Creator: Bradley, Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Memo to IVAE Consultants, Cincinnati IVAE Seminar Participants

Description: Pages two and three of a memo to the Improving Visual Arts Education Consultants, Cincinnati IVAE Seminar Participants, Cranbrook IVAE Seminar Participants. The memo details the Center's appreciation of the interest the consultants have in discipline-based art education and will continue to keep IVAE projects on the mailing list to continue to inform them of future Center plans as the Center has spent many years the best means to spread DBAE across the United States.
Date: October 9, 1992
Creator: Improving Visual Arts Education
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Quarter of a Century of Health and Physical Education in North Texas State Teachers College

Description: The purpose of this study was to trace the history and development of the Health and Physical Education Program in North Texas State Teachers College from the year 1914 to 1939 to determine the contribution this department has made in the development of the College. As a reslut of the foregoing study, the following conclusions were reached: 1. The success of the Health and the Physical Education Department was due to the foundation upon which it was built; this foundation was laid by responsibl… more
Date: August 1939
Creator: Johns, Lorenzo M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of the Perceptions of Students, Teachers, and Administrators of Actual and Ideal Educational Goals in Level Four Adult- Continuing Education Programs in Bangkok, Thailand

Description: This investigation sought to examine the congruence or the lack of congruence of educational goals in Level Four Adult-Continuing Education Programs in Bangkok, Thailand. The purposes of the study were to identify the actual and ideal goals of Level Four Adult-Continuing Education Programs and to determine whether any significant differences existed in the perceptions of educational goals of the programs among students, teachers, and administrators.
Date: May 1987
Creator: Jintana Sujjanun
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Persistence Patterns of Mathematics and Science Majors: A Profile of Highly Motivated Freshmen

Description: Despite an increasing demand for college graduates skilled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") fields, a substantial number of students who choose these majors leave after taking their first-year "gateway" math and science coursework. Research has shown GPA to be a salient predictor of persistence in STEM majors: Students who earn high grades in gateway courses are more likely to continue, and those who earn low grades are more likely to leave. However, a small number … more
Date: August 2016
Creator: Gonzales, Erin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Emergence of All-State Vocal Jazz Ensembles in the United States from 1978 to 2022

Description: Since the creation of the first all-state vocal jazz ensemble in 1978, similar ensembles have been established in roughly half of the United States. This paper contains historical summaries of the creation of all-state vocal jazz ensembles in nineteen of those states, primarily as recounted via interviews with those ensembles' founders. Each semi-structured interview was conducted over video conference or phone and lasted approximately one hour; resulting interview data was analyzed using quali… more
Date: August 2022
Creator: Thomas, Tyler
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effectiveness of a Personal Robot in Presenting a Sound/Filmstrip as Measured by a Robotic Technology Achievement Test

Description: The problem of this study was to compare the effects of two methods of filmstrip presentation on student achievement. One method employed a personal robot to automatically advance a filmstrip projector in sequence with an audio cassette tape while the other method had a person manually advancing a filmstrip projector in sequence with an audio cassette tape. These were the findings of the study: The pretested experimental and control subjects learned from the sound/filmstrip. The pretested exper… more
Date: August 1986
Creator: Keenan, Douglas E. (Douglas Earl)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Integration of Students with Disabilities into a Contemporary Technology Education Program: a Case Study

Description: The impacts resulting from the integration of students with moderate-to-severe disabilities into a contemporary technology education program are described in this study. The research centered around questions that addressed impacts on students with disabilities, on regular students, on teachers, and on parents of students with disabilities. The study took place in a ninth-grade technology education class and involved two students with moderate-to-severe disabilities. One subject was a 15-year-o… more
Date: December 1992
Creator: Pullias, David T. (David Terrell)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Historical Inquiry Into the Development of Higher Education in Ghana 1948-1984: a Study of the Major Factors That Have Controlled and Inhibited the Development of the Universities of Ghana

Description: Universities in many industrialized countries including Japan, and Australia, have enabled those countries to achieve rapid economic and social advancement. However, this is untrue for the universities of Ghana, due to the country's ailing economy, its continued dependence on foreign manpower, aid, and material goods. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to illuminate the major factors and events that have controlled and inhibited the development of higher education in Ghana from 1948 to 1… more
Date: December 1985
Creator: Darko, Samuel F. (Samuel Fordjour)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Historical Review of the Development of Secondary Education in Eastern Nigeria

Description: The purpose of this study is to describe the historical development of secondary education in Eastern Nigeria, taking into consideration the following periods: (1). before the coming of the British, (2) from 1842 to 1960 when Nigeria received her independence from Britain, and (3) from 1960 to 1986. The period between 1960 and 1986 is further subdivided into (a) 1960 to 1967 when the civil war began, (b) 1967 to 1970 when the civil war ended, and (c) the post-civil war era—1970 to 1986.
Date: August 1987
Creator: Edoghotu, Felix Uno
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Observable Differences in Selected Employment Characteristics Among Groups of Teachers of Students With Serious Emotional Disturbances Grouped by Type of Endorsement and Level of Training

Description: Employment data were collected from personnel files of 43 teachers of students with serious emotional disturbances from a large suburban school district. The 43 records were sorted into groups by level of college education and type of teaching endorsement. The groups were then compared for differences in duration of employment and summative evaluation scores on the Texas Teacher Appraisal System using a non-parametric one-way analysis of variance. At a .05 probability level, no significant diff… more
Date: December 1990
Creator: Reese, James Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries
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College and Career Readiness of Students with Autism

Description: With one in every 59 individuals now diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there is a significant increase in college enrollment for these students, yet, alarmingly, this population has the highest college dropout rate. Using Rawl's social justice theory as the frame, this qualitative study identified the perceptions of students with ASD, their college professors, and the director of the Office of Disability Accommodation (ODA). Perceptions were examined through open-ended surveys re… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Stello, Christina N
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Pragmatism in the Modern School

Description: This study proposes to (1) set forth, in a brief way, the gradual evolution of pragmatism from about 1905 down to the present, (2) to clearly define pragmatism and to differentiate between it and some other "isms" having philosophical significance, (3) and to show how pragmatism has made for itself a place in the modern school curriculum.
Date: 1940
Creator: Wallace, Audie Price
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Bilingual Education: An Overview

Description: The U.S. Department of Education(ED) administers the Bilingual Education Act (BEA), the federal education program specifically intended for limited English proficient (LEP) children. The Congress considered several proposals to reauthorize the BEA in the 106th Congress. The 107th Congress has again been considering legislation to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), including the BEA. H.R. 1, the “No Child Left Behind Act of 2001” was passed by the House on May 23, 200… more
Date: June 7, 2001
Creator: Osorio-O'Dea, Patricia
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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