The problem is four-fold: To compare the ability of McCracken County and Paducah, Kentucky, to finance their educational programs. To compare the effort that McCracken County and Paducah are making to finance their educational programs. To compare the educational programs of McCracken County and Paducah. To suggest a defensible educational program based on the ability and effort of the educational unit to support it.

This study has been an undertaking for the purpose of finding the real causes of non-attendance in the rural schools of Grayson County, Kentucky. This study applies only to those children who have become members of some particular school. Grayson county is principally rural with the interests of the people practically the same the county over.

The problem specifically stated is: What is the effect of specific training upon the development of the ability to pick out central thoughts of paragraphs as compared with the results of obtained in the same direction from general reading procedures? The purpose of this study is to compare the results of specific training upon the development of this special ability in reading with the results obtained in the same direction from general reading procedures.

The purpose of this study can be divided into three parts: To determine the drawing and holding power of the Ohio County high schools. To find out why certain students are dropping out of school. To offer suggestions, if possible, as to how the drawing and holding power of the Ohio County high schools may be increased.

Questionnaires containing the names of ten books, two series, and spaces for titles to be written in were distributed to 482 fifth-grade pupils to obtain data on the following questions: Are trade books that were popular with fifth-grade pupils a generation or more ago maintaining their popularity: Which new titles of children's books have emerged and gained popularity? Are selected series books popular with today's fifth-graders? To what extent do reading interests of boys and girls differ at the fifth-grade level? Interest scores were computed on all titles rated by as many as ten subjects Only King of the Wind and Wonderful Wizard of Oz, from the list of books popular twenty-five years ago, were popular with the subjects surveyed today. Of the books written in and rated, The Mouse and the Motorcycle received the highest score. The Hardy Boys series met the standard of the study, with the score of the Nancy Drew series being only slightly below. Only King of the Wind of the predetermined books was popular with both boys and girls. There were no books written in and rated by ten boys and ten girls.

This thesis has been written to emphasize the differences in two methods of teaching arithmetic - mechanical drill and meaningful drill - and attempts to present a psychologically and theoretically sound proposal for instruction in number skills in the primary grades of the elementary school.

Samples from two populations, students socially promoted into McLean County High School in the years 1976- 1979, who had not been retained, and students who entered McLean County High School during the same years who had been retained at one or more grade levels, 1-8, were compared. Comparisons of differences which existed in the two student groups selected for the sample were in five areas: (1) reported attitude toward school, (2) attendance, (3) number of discipline offenses, grades 9-11, (4) scores on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, Form S, in the subtests of reading and math as measured at; the eighth grade level and (5) scores on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, Form S, in the subtests of reading and math as measured at the twelfth grade level. Statistical analysis was by means of a t test of significance of the mean scores of the two subject groups. Mean expanded scale scores for the two groups were further analyzed using academic aptitude as a covariate. The findings of the study indicated no significant difference between socially promoted and retained students in the areas of attitudes toward school, attendance, number of discipline offenses, grades 9-11, achievement scores in reading and math at the eighth grade level, or achievement scores in math at the twelfth grade level. Achievement scores in reading did, however, differ significantly for the two groups at the twelfth grade level, with the retained group scoring higher.

The purpose of the study was to determine if there were significant differences between spring reading achievement scores and fall reading achievement scores in the Title I students of L. C. Curry School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and if significant differences did occur, were these differences related to grade level, IQ, sex, or reading achievement level.

The problem selected for this thesis is "A Study of the Grades of the Western Kentucky State Teachers College during the Years 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32." The purpose of the study is as follows: To compare the distribution of grades by the various instructors of the college. To weight the grades assigned by the individual instructors. To compare the distribution of grades by the various departments. To weight the grades assigned by departments. To compare the grades given by instructors within the same departments. To compare the grades given by the college as a whole with other colleges. To compare the grades given in residence with those given in extension study.

This study involves the following divisions: To build a course of study in plane geometry consisting of six units developed. To suggest some ways of evaluating a course of study.