With the advent of the 21st century, technological innovations are transforming the face of education and the school library media center. One of these significant developments is the ability to communicate through the Internet. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of Texas public school library media specialists who are active Internet users about their utilization of the Internet, and how their efforts in implementing and supervising Internet access in their school library media centers impact the Texas public schools that they serve. A survey instrument of Likert items was developed that queried these public school library media specialists for their perceptions of Internet use in their schools. MANOVA was the chosen statistical measure for this study. An initial electronic mail-out to 1,232 Texas public school library media specialists (K-12) with Internet addresses were contacted to participate in this study. After a time frame of one month, 196 Texas school library media specialists e-mailed the researcher, confirming their willingness to be a survey participant. All respondents to this e-mail request participated in this study, and a second U.S. mail-out was sent containing the actual survey instrument. The researcher found that the use of the Internet by school library media specialists in Texas did not increase global collegiality from the viewpoint of the survey respondents. Survey respondents felt that an Internet acceptable use policy did not ensure student access to the Internet in Texas public school library media centers. The study examined the relationship between acceptable use policies and Internet censorship, and the researcher found no connection between these two elements from the perspective of the school library media specialist. The study found that school library media specialists believe that their training did improve their students' library research skills. Furthermore, the survey respondents believed that their Internet training improved student learning. Finally, the study found no connection between school size, based on the Texas Education Agency's school classification system, and student access to the Internet.

The goal of this thesis is to understand the consequences of educational choice in the public school system. The research takes place in San Antonio, Texas. The research encompasses meaningful comparisons between three sets of low income students and their families: 1) those who chose to remain in their attendance-zone school, 2) those who enrolled in the multilingual program, and 3) those who applied to the multilingual program but were not admitted because of space limitations.

The problem of this study was to measure the effectiveness of a public school Montessori program. The purpose of this study was to measure and compare student academic achievement and self-concept, attendance and promotion rates, and level of parental involvement in the schools of students enrolled in public school Montessori and traditional programs. The 95 subjects in this study were third-grade subjects selected from the student populations in Montessori and traditional school sites. The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) was used as the pre-test scores, and the Norm-referenced Assessment Program for Texas (NAPT) was used as the post-test scores to compare academic achievement in reading and mathematics. Multiple regression was used to compare the levels of academic achievement and self-concept. Multiple regression was also used to test for possible relationship between the Montessori and traditional programs and gender and ethnicity.

The purpose of this study is to examine the four basic student assistance models and determine their distribution in Texas, describe the student assistance programs in place in public school districts in Texas including the program's goals, objectives and components, and explore the perceived effectiveness of student assistance programs as a viable means of drug and alcohol education for students enrolled in public school districts in Texas in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

The problem undertaken in this study was that of making an investigation of the nature of the contributions of the North Texas State College and the co-operating public schools under its supervision to the Texas Health Education Program during the three-year period from December, 1946, to December, 1949.

On April 11, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower put into effect Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953, creating a new cabinet level department within the federal government. The new Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) was a consolidation of organizations dealing with national social concerns. Some of the organizations dated back to 1785 when the Congress of the Confederation first set aside public lands for schools. This paper concerns the creation and growth of the department of Health, Education and Welfare, including it's various educational programs, educational research programs, aid to higher education, federally impacted areas, and other HEW programs which affect education.

Health is a primary objective of modern education. It was named as the first of the seven cardinal principles of education. Over a period of years the health and safety of the school children have gradually become more firmly fixed as a part of the school program. Modern schools, when adequately staffed and administered, provide experiences in healthful daily living, an opportunity to become acquainted with good health services, a chance to learn something about the care of ones own body, the maintenance of health, and the prevention of disease. Thus the schools have come to contribute to community health through their planned programs of health service and through cooperation with other health and safety agencies.

The legacies of World War I in British culture are often explained by terms such as disillusionment and futility or by the understanding that the war shattered nineteenth century ideas of progress. These were not, however, the images of the war offered by the nation’s public and state sponsored secondary schools during the interwar years. By examining the categories of commemoration and curriculum, this study explores how British educational institutions mobilized the memory of the war in order to avoid cynicism and promote traditional forms of national, class, and gender identity. The first two chapters focus on how school memorials grew out of wartime communication within extended school communities in a way that privileged a heroic and traditional language of “high diction,” a concept developed by Paul Fussell. The following two chapters explore the ways in which discussions of how and why to teach history created a rhetoric of non-revolutionary citizenship and shaped portrayals of the war itself in a variety of British textbooks. Both processes elevated ideas including national and imperial patriotism, sportsmanship, self-sacrifice, personal and international leadership, and a continued faith in progress. This was initially accomplished by the exclusion of other possible narratives of the war, but the success of this interwar educational narrative was, in turn, undermined by subsequent economic and political events.

Orientador: Suzi Marques Spatti Cavalari / Resumo: Este estudo tem por objetivo investigar o que dizem os professores de inglês a respeito da utilização de tecnologias nas escolas públicas de uma cidade do interior de São Paulo. A discussão teórica se embasa nos pressupostos da Teoria da Atividade (ENGESTRÖM, 1999; 2001), nos documentos oficiais que orientam a educação básica no Brasil (PCN, PCNEM, LDB, OCEM, BNCC, PME), nas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para Formação Inicial e Continuada em Nível Superior de Profissionais do Magistério para a Educação Básica (BRASIL, 2002; 2015) e nos fatores que influenciam a utilização de tecnologias no contexto escolar (RODRIGUES, 2010; ALVARENGA; AZZI, 2013; ROSA; AZENHA, 2015; MAYRINK; COSTA, 2017). Trata-se de um estudo misto (quantitativo e qualitativo) do tipo survey cujos dados foram gerados por meio de um questionário composto por questões abertas e fechadas realizado com 16 professores de inglês atuantes nas escolas públicas da cidade focal. Além disso, adotou-se como fonte de dados complementar a tomada de notas feita pelo pesquisador em visita a cada uma instituições pesquisadas, totalizando dez escolas estaduais e uma municipal. Os dados apontaram que há utilização de tecnologias, contudo, apenas em alguns momentos da prática pedagógica dos docentes, conforme afirmaram os professores. Os tipos de atividade predominantes foram de pesquisa, escuta, pronúncia e vocabulário e as mídias mais utilizadas foram músicas, filmes, vídeos e jogos. Em relação aos objetivos, os docentes ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study aims at researching what English teachers say about the use of technologies in classroom in the context of public schools in a city in the countryside of São Paulo State. The theoretical discussion sets its bases on the principles of the Activity Theory (ENGESTRÖM, 1999; 2001), on the official documents which orient the Brazilian basic education (PCN, PCNEM, LDB, BNCC, PME), on the National Curricular Guidelines to Higher and In-service education for basic education teaching professionals (BRASIL, 2002; 2015) and on the factors that influence the use of technologies in a public school context (RODRIGUES, 2010; ALVARENGA; AZZI, 2013; ROSA; AZENHA, 2015; MAYRINK; COSTA, 2017). This study employs quantitative and qualitative approaches and it is characterized as a survey type work. A questionnaire composed by closed and open-ended questions and answered by 16 public school English teachers is adopted as the main source of data. As a secondary data collection instrument, the researcher employed note taking about the schools’ infrastructure while visiting them. In total, ten state schools and one municipal school were visited. The data pointed out that the use of technology in this context exists, however, only in some moments of the teachers’ pedagogical practice. The predominant kinds of activity were research, listening, pronunciation, and vocabulary exercises done through songs, movies, videos, and games. Concerning the objectives, the teachers claimed to use the te... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

This study investigated foundation phase educators’ perceptions of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The educators’ views on the causes, appropriate interventions and incidence rates of ADHD were examined. A sample of 140 foundation phase educators from mainstream private and public schools participated in the study. The educators completed a self-developed questionnaire that had been piloted by the researcher. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data, in conjunction with t-tests to ascertain the differences in responses between public and private school educators. Thematic content analysis was used to identify the main categories and themes that emerged form the open-ended questions. The results revealed that the educators had a limited understanding of ADHD, in terms of what it is as well as its causes. In addition, it emerged that the educators preferred medication as the intervention method despite being aware of additional intervention methods. A comparison of the private and public school educators’ results indicated no significant difference in the educators’ perceptions regarding the cause, interventions or incidence rate of ADHD. These findings are discussed in relation to empirical studies and suggestions for future research are presented.