Dr. Alexis F. Lange is living forever in this chosen field, not in a mosaic of marble, but in the lives and actions of men and women today, who came in personal contact with his warm congenial personality and the inspiration of his spirit and ideals. It was largely through his efforts in establishing the junior high schools and the junior colleges, that the school children of today are able to live in situations better adapted to their educational needs.

"The principal of Woodrow Wilson Junior High School selected a tentative home room committee of teachers during the post school planning period. This group discussed the problem at hand, the purpose of the home room and the home room program as well as the guidance to be derived through the home room. The writer, as a member of that committee, has collected materials, studied the home room and through programs. These will serve as a guide for the pupils of Wilson Junior High School. The plan is that the children will become interested in these topics and will suggest others for consideration in the home room"--Introduction. / "1952"--Cover. / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Marian W. Black, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48).

"The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of an activity program which was started in Tomlin Junior High School during the 1949-50 term. It is not an analysis based on statistics, nor is it an attempt to present an ideal program as a pattern for other schools to follow. Rather it honestly attempts to describe how the teachers in a given school worked through the group process to meet one of the paramount needs of that school in a way that would contribute most to the boys and girls enrolled in the school"--Preface. / "August 9, 1950." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: H. A. Curtis, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60).

It is the purpose of this thesis to develop a great- er interest and effort in character education in the school, the home and the church and to show nome techniques which have proved successful in the lives of the students of Junior high schools, especially at Stanford Junior High School in Sacramento.

The transition between elementary and secondary school occurs wholly as a function of grade level and not necessarily on the basis of specific developmental achievements. Researchers have found that a significant decrease in grade-point average occurs during this process, and that interpersonal changes may occur as well. The present study sought to determine (a) whether this decrease is fairly standard across students, or whether there are clear differences in student adjustment to secondary school; (b) whether changes also occur with regard to attendance and behavior; (c) whether students who make a poor academic transition continue to perform poorly in their second year of middle school; and (d) whether it is possible, based on interpersonal measures (locus of control, assertion, and popularity), teacher behavior ratings, and a family learning environment measure, to predict the pattern of students' transitions. Subjects for this study were 265 students attending one of two middle schools in southwestern Virginia. Results indicated that (a) there is a significant difference in grade-point average between the final year of elementary school and the first year of middle school, and that there are dramatic grade-point adjustment differences across students; (b) there are nonsignificant differences between elementary and middle school attendance and behavior, but differences in these areas across students; (c) in general, students who make a poor academic transition continue to perform poorly in their second year of middle school; and (d) previous level of functioning in each area is generally the best predictor of subsequent functioning, but significant differences were found between "good" and "poor" transition students when data was analyzed by gender, academic level, and previous level of functioning. These findings were viewed as a first step toward identifying students at-risk for poor transitions, and were discussed in this context. / M.S.

This is a comparative study of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in the Gainesville Junior High School, Gainesville, Texas, to determine the relative progress in meeting the purposes of education in an American democracy, as outlined by the Policies Commission of the National Education Association. This study is made for the purpose of ascertaining the progress made to date in the Gainesville Junior High School and for use as a guide in improving its educational standards in line with the recommendations of the National Educational Policies Commission.

The general purpose of this problem is to set forth needed information necessary to the progress of the social studies program in the junior high school.

The purpose of this study is to determine the pupil load in relationship to the amount of equipment available for use in industrial arts classes in the junior high schools of Texas.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the recreational program of certain junior high schools in the Texas Panhandle to determine the extent to which they meet accepted criteria for this type of program.

The purposes of this study are: (1) to make an investigation of the home-room programs of the junior high schools in Wichita Falls, Texas, to discover what social guidance, if any, is offered to students; (2) to set up criteria for evaluating a social guidance program in a junior high school; and (3) to evaluate the social guidance programs of the home rooms in the junior high schools in Wichita Falls, Texas, in terms of the criteria set up for evaluation.