Thesis--University of Chicago. / Bibliography: p. 150-154.

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In the papers, educationaljournals and occasionally in farm magazines and other periodicals we read of the unsatisfactory school conditions prevalent in the state of Kentucky. As a citizen, student, teacher and would-be educator in this beautiful state, it appears desirable to determine to some degree whether or not inadequate school programs exist in Kentucky and if so to locate some of the factors determining them. Obviously the field is too broad to be covered in a single investigation. This particular study has been concentrated in one small county of the state. As it proceeded, broader and broader avenues for investigation opened only to be eliminated one by one to a few specific observations treated in this investigation. This is a study of the children appearing on the rolls in the primary grades of all the schools in the county system during the school year 1940-41. It was then determined where these children were twelve years later relative to their scholastic lives.

"The purpose of this study was to evaluate the program of physical education, health, and recreation of the Waco State School from 1933 to 1940...In view of these definite results, the conclusion is made that the Physical Education, Health, and Recreation Program of the Waco State Home has been successful in the following respects: 1. It has developed normal, happy children who have a chance to become useful, self-supporting children. 2. The Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Program of the Home has met and exceeded in many respects the educational standards for such activities. 3. The Waco State Home has performed a great educational service in remolding warped, underprivileged children."--leaf 2.