This study attempted to analyze the educational problems of
Tamil women, one of the communal groups in Ceylon, to trace in
broad outline the development of their education from the earliest
times to the present day, and to ascertain particularly the quality
and importance of Home Economics Education in the...
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of single fathers attending a community college. Single fathers comprise one-fifth of all single parent families, yet little research has been done on this growing segment of the population. A phenomenological approach was utilized to examine the attributes, needs, and...
Problem
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the status of
high school psychology in the state of Oregon by comparing Oregon
high school psychology with (1) general information from the literature,
(2) information obtained from a survey of 130 high school psychology
teachers in the United States, (3)...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this thesis is to survey the current practices in
guidance services in the public secondary schools of British Columbia
and on the basis of the survey findings, together with a review of the
literature of guidance, to present recommendations for a feasible
program...
This study investigated the relationship between
various demographic, structural, organizational, and
operational factors and the success of nonprofit
foundations affiliated with two-year technical and
community colleges in Canada. Three aspects were
specifically examined: (1) a descriptive analysis of the
two-year technical and community college foundation in
Canada; (2) Pearson product-moment...
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe how Oregon governors
Barbara Roberts and John Kitzhaber, whose tenures both coincided with the passage
and implementation of property tax limitation measures, determined the community
college budgets within their recommended state budgets. The stories of Robert’s 1993
and Kitzhaber’s 2001 decisions...
Background: Social interaction among peers on a campus of higher education has long been considered an important part of the college student experience, in particular for the first-term students transitioning into college life. Students who socially connect with peers on campus tend to persist at higher rates, while other benefits...
Youth in foster care often perform at lower levels academically than those not in foster care. Prior research on the nature of the relationships that affect former foster youth's educational path has been inconclusive. Though it is widely believed that positive relationships with faculty, staff and peers is beneficial for...