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41. War Service Text-Book for Indiana High Schools | |
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(2010-04-08)
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42. Report Of The Jefferson County Survey For Vocational Education .. | |
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(2010-10-15)
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43. Report of the Commission On Industrial and Agricultural Education | |
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(2010-04-20)
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44. A Call to Leadership: The First Fifty Years of the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents by Linda Dye Ellis | |
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(2010-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description A Call to Leadership examines commonly accepted condemnations of public education and highlights the key role played by the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents (IAPSS) in supporting its members' tireless struggle for educational improvement and in correcting public misconceptions. While the book describes specific circumstances in Indiana, efforts at the state level reflect educational challenges throughout the United States, and this volume will be a valuable reference source for educational policy makers throughout North America. Since the IAPSS's foundation, graduation rates have risen over twenty percent, and more rigorous coursework has been introduced to an increasingly diverse pool of students. The landscape of education has changed, as 1,100 Indiana school districts have been consolidated into 293 corporations under the direction of licensed superintendents. Throughout the whole period, school leaders have struggled to implement increasingly complex programs that have often been mandated but left underfunded. |
45. Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make by Don Hossler, Jack Schmit, Nick Vesper | |
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(1998-11-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Going to College tells the powerful story of how high school students make choices about postsecondary education. Drawing on their unprecedented nine-year study of high school students, the authors explore how students and their parents negotiate these important decisions. Family background, finances, education, information -- all influence students' plans after high school and the career paths they pursue, as do the more subtle messages delivered by parents and counselors which shape adolescents' self-expectations. For high school guidance counselors, college admissions counselors, parents and teachers, and public policy makers, this book is a valuable resource that explains the decision-making process and helps adults to help students make appropriate choices. The authors identify predisposition, search, and choice as the three stages in the student decision-making process. Predisposition refers to the plans students develop for education or work after they graduate from high school. The search stage involves students discovering and evaluating a variety of colleges and universities. In the choice stage, students choose a school to attend from among a list of institutions that are being seriously considered. Understanding exactly how students move through the predisposition, search, and choice stages of the college decision-making process can help students and parents prepare themselves for this process and consider a wider array of options. For education professionals, understanding this process can lead to new initiatives to guide students and families effectively -- by providing better incentives for college savings, for example, or devising more effective early information programs about postsecondary education. Going to Collegeis the first book to seriously study over an extended period the decisions that have a pervasive and lasting impact on individual careers, livelihoods, and lifestyles. The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement -- in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them. Customer Reviews (3)
In addition to outlining findings from these surveys, Going to College also reports in greater depth on interviews with eight students.While relatively interesting, the interviews are not the most beneficial part of the book.Even the surveys, the book acknowledges, may be somewhat limited in their value.For instance, some results may not be useful to people in other parts of the country.The study is set in Indiana, where the average parental income and educational levels are in the bottom half of the fifty states. Nonetheless, Going to College contains a number of interesting conclusions and statements.For example, the study discovered that seven of ten sophomores who said they planned to attend a college of some sort did actually matriculate in college after high school.However, only 35% of the students surveyed ended up attending one of the colleges they were considering in the tenth grade year. Going to College also tries to determine what characteristics may "predict" whether or not a high schooler will end up attending college.The role of parents seems to be a key predictor.The authors found that toward the beginning of the college selection process--during the early high school years--the encouragement of parents is most likely to determine whether or not a student has college aspirations. Sixty-four percent of students who received strong encouragement from their parents attended a four-year college (p. 102). The parents' level of educational attainment also makes a difference.As that level increases, children are more likely to go to college.Seventy-five percent of students whose parents had a college degree actually enrolled in college (p. 104). The second strongest indicator of college aspirations is the students' high school grade point average.Ninety-one percent of A students plan to attend a four-year college and 65% of B students do, but only 28% of C students expect to go to college (p. 106). Going to College represents the type of research that most college and university enrollment managers would love to conduct: A longitudinal study that traces students' and parents' attitudes, influences and goals through the high school years and beyond.Unfortunately, the results of this particular study are somewhat limited.
If you're looking for a basic overview on how students selectcolleges, try Hossler's other work or that of others on the structure ofcollege choice. Avoid the mass-market "choosing a college" booksthat are targeted to over-anxious students and parents. The core of thebook describes a longitudinal study the authors did on Indiana high schoolstudents. While the stats and ancedotes do a fine job helping the reader tounderstand the process *these students* were going through, it's difficultto read and not think "how would this apply to other students? Does itat all?" There is a worthy summary of the current theory and modelsof student college choice in the closing chapters. My advice, if you readthis book, is to start with the generalized information in the back andthen read the rest of the book from page one. ... Read more |
46. Contributions to American Educational History: No. 10 Higher Education in Indiana by Herbert Baxter Adams | |
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(2009-05-13)
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47. Education in Indiana: An Outline of the Growth of the Common School System, Together with Statements Relating to the Condition of Secondary and Higher ... Exhibit. Prepared for the Louisiana Purcha by Anonymous | |
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(2010-03-16)
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48. Education in Indiana: An Outline of the Growth of the Common School System, Together with Statements Relating to the Condition of Secondary and Higher ... Exhibit. Prepared for the Louisiana Purcha by Anonymous | |
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(2010-03-24)
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49. Indiana High School Basketball's 20 Most Dominant Players by Dave Krider | |
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(2009-03-27)
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50. The Amish Schools of Indiana by Stephen Bowers Harroff | |
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(2004-04-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description The fascinating story of the Old Order Amish parochial school movement in Indiana is brilliantly detailed by Stephen Harroff in The Amish School of Indiana . From its beginnings in 1948 through 2002, readers are invited into the school at numerous points, to sit in on classes, school programs, and impromptu celebrations. Harroff delicately preserves the anonymity of his subjects and adheres to the Amish practices concerning posed pictures while making use of over fifty photographs to document the state of Old Order Amish education in Indiana . Harroff, who has a long history of work with the Old Order Amish in Indiana , melds his first-hand experience in the school during his residency to reveal his thorough work. Customer Reviews (2)
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51. Bloomington Daze: More Town and Gown in Middle America by Blaise Cronin | |
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(2007-08-23)
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52. An Address to the Legislature of Indiana, at the Commencement of Its Session, December 6Th, 1847. Upon Popular Education by Caleb Mills | |
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(2010-09-20)
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53. Education in Tippecanoe County, Indiana: Lafayette Central Catholic Jr|sr High School, William Henry Harrison High School (West Lafayette | |
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54. Report of the Richmond, Indiana, Survey for Vocational Education (no. 3) by Indiana. State Board of Education | |
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(2009-12-21)
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55. The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston | |
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(2010-03-05)
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56. Report of the Indianapolis Survey for Vocational Education (Volume 2) by Indiana. State Board of Education | |
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(2010-01-05)
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57. Report of the Evansville Survey for Vocational Education by Indiana. State Board of Education | |
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(2010-10-14)
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58. Jill Long Thompson: seeking change in taxes, health care and education.(VIEWPOINT): An article from: Indiana Business Magazine by Jill Long Thompson | |
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(2008-10-01)
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59. Indiana University, 1820-1904: Historical Sketch, Development of the Course of Instruction, Bibliography (1904) by Indiana University | |
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(2009-07-08)
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60. Overtime: Small School, Giant Dream 20 Years Later: Life After Indiana High School Basketball by Raymond Moscowitz | |
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(2009-10-27)
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