ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Understanding Synesthesia and Impact for Learning
Author: Wheeler, Kateri Lynn
Date: 2013-05-00
Type: Dissertations/Theses - Masters Theses
Subjects: Sensory Experience,Sensory Integration,Neurological Organization,Holistic Approach,Cognitive Processes,Difficulty Level,Neurological Impairments,Perception,Social Isolation,Cognitive Style,Learning Strategies,Special Education,Disabilities,Autism,Children,Numbers,Graphemes

Synesthesia is a neurological disorder that has to do with the "union of the senses." The literature reveals that students with synesthesia are affected with various degrees of severity. Students may hear a bell ring. Their brain is wired to take that sound and interpret it differently, through color, texture, taste, sound or temperature among other things. While some people hear a bell, others may also experience the activation of another sense. The difficulties these students exhibit involves longer processing or thinking time to sort out the extra stimulus. Limiting sound environments and other visual cues like color coding to help these students to comprehend what is going on around them, particularly in the classroom.  The purpose of this study is to identify and document the experience through the use of a case study, and describe the challenges an individual faces under these circumstances. Jessica, a young adult who served as the focus of this case study, shares her first person experience of what it is like to cope with synesthesia. Jessica exhibits other forms of synesthesia including grapheme to color, time units to color such as weekday to color, month to color, spatial sequences, pain to color and numbers to personalities. Data from her first person experience and childhood was the subject of the study. Data of her experiences from childhood into adulthood were gathered and analyzed. The findings suggest that Jessica continues to consistently demonstrate over a period of 12 years grapheme to color synesthesia. Jessica was tested and retested her over a period of five months and the results demonstrated that her alphabet and numbers to colors stayed consistent during that period of time as well. Jessica's numbers to personalities stayed consistent although she used different words to describe the numbers, but the general personalities stayed consistent over the five-month test and retest. When tested and retested over a six month period Jessica also stated the same time units to color such as weekday to color and month to color. Although this study did not have the capabilities to measure Jessica's claims of spatial sequences and pain to color Jessica did report it in the test and retest constantly over the five-month period.
Reorganizing a County System of Rural Schools: Report of a Study of the Schools of San Mateo County, California. Bulletin, 1916, No. 16
Author: Williams, J. Harold
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Administrative Organization,School Districts,Counties,Rural Schools,Accountability,Surveys,Public Schools,School Visitation,Records (Forms),Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Parent Attitudes,Administrator Attitudes,Business

The purpose of this study was to: (1) make a careful survey of the county, touching upon its geological, geographical, social, and economic features; (2) survey the system of schools now provided by the many districts in the county; and (3) propose a system of public schools to meet more adequately the needs of the people of this larger community. Material has been gathered by a personal visit to every town and nearly every school in the county; by talks with teachers, pupils, parents, business men, and county officials, as well as by written records. Question blanks were presented to each of the rural schools, and were filled out by the pupils in the presence of the investigator. Blanks were also sent to many of the teachers and parents in various districts. Other information was furnished at the county offices, at Redwood City. (Contains 15 charts and 3 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
The Wisconsin County Training Schools for Teachers in Rural Schools. Bulletin, 1916, No. 17
Author: Larson, W. E.
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Rural Schools,School Law,Schools of Education,Teacher Education,Program Development,Educational History,Counties,School Buildings,Teachers,Principals,Curriculum,Student Characteristics,Graduates,Superintendents,Training

This bulletin traces the movement in Wisconsin for the establishment of schools having for their special object the preparation of teachers for country schools from the early 1890s through to the 1916 establishment of training schools in Racine and Juneau Counties. Contents include: (1) an historical statement; (2) the current county training-school law; (3) the provision of buildings for county training schools, by county; (4) the teachers in the training schools, including principals; (5) the one- and two-year courses of study, and the subjects covered; (6) the students, including some county normal statistics; (7) the graduates--some statistics, as well as county superintendent input on the work done by the graduates; (8) the work of the county training schools outside of the training of teachers, and the rationale for these duties; (9) the advantages of the training school as an institution for training country teachers; (10) some suggestions for improving the work of the county training schools; and (11) Other institutions in Wisconsin preparing teachers for country-school work--normal schools and high schools. (Contains 4 plates.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
Public Facilities for Educating the Alien. Bulletin, 1916, No. 18
Author: Farrington, Frederic Ernest
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Immigrants,Illiteracy,Compulsory Education,Access to Education,English (Second Language),Legal Responsibility,Educational History,Evening Programs,Whites,Minority Groups,Age Differences,Attendance Patterns

In 1910 in the United States there were more than thirteen million foreign-born men, women, and children. More than four-fifths of those who arrived in that year were from southern and eastern Europeans countries and other countries in which the percentage of illiteracy is very large. Nearly three million of these foreign-born men, women, and children over the age of 10 were unable to speak English, and more than 1.6 million could not read or write in any language. Adequate opportunity and every other proper inducement must be provided, to learn the language of the country and whatever else may be necessary to enable them to understand the best in American social, industrial, and civic life. This bulletin addresses the question, &quot;What is now being done for the education of those who come to our shores after having passed the age of compulsory school attendance?&quot; It identifies the increase in illiteracy among immigrants over a fifty year period and the significance of that change; discusses legal aspects of educating children of compulsory education age, youth up to the age of the school-age period (18, 20, or 21, according to the State), and all other persons above the age limits who may be termed adults from the school-age point of view; and describes present conditions for educating foreign-born adults in evening schools, based on 1914-15 responses to a questionnaire by school administrative officers. (Contains 6 tables, 3 diagrams, and 13 footnotes.) [Prepared in the Division of Immigrant Education. Best copy available has been provided.]
State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa. Bulletin, 1916, No. 19
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Higher Education,Liberal Arts,Physical Education,Extension Agents,State Colleges,Expenditures,Home Economics,Institutional Administration,State Surveys,Institutional Characteristics,Secondary Education,Extension Education,Womens Education,Costs,Educational Facilities,Teacher Salaries,College Faculty,Journalism Education,College Administration

This bulletin presents the report of a survey of State higher educational institutions of Iowa, made under the direction of the Commissioner of Education for the Iowa State Board of Education by the committee appointed by the Commissioner. The introduction provides background on the development and purpose of the survey. Contents include: (1) Higher education in Iowa, with incidental reference to pubic secondary education; (2) Expenditures of Iowa State institutions of higher education; (3) Duplication and the principle of major lines; (4) Graduate work; (5) Liberal arts work in the Iowa State College; (6) Extension work; (7) Duplication of work in psychology and education; (8) Home economics in the three State educational institutions; (9) Subcollegiate work; (10) Courses in journalism; (11) Courses in commerce of a school of commerce; (12) A study of the use of buildings at the Iowa State institutions; (13) Building costs; (14) The physical education of women; (15) The work and remuneration of the instructional staffs of the Iowa State institutions; (16) Observations on State and institutional administration; and (17) General summary of recommendations. The report additionally provides six appendices: (1) Discussion of certain departments at Iowa State College; (2) Extension work; (3) The housing of women students; (4) Substance of letter addressed to the editors of journals published in the State of Iowa; (5) Buildings and classification of space; and (6) Student clock hours, salaries, expenditures. An index is included. (Contains 13 tables, 5 diagrams, 7 maps, 53 footnotes, and 7 errata.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
Accredited Secondary Schools in the United States. Bulletin, 1916, No. 20
Author: Capen, Samuel Paul
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Accreditation (Institutions),Educational Change,Schools of Education,Private Schools,State Departments of Education,State Universities,High Schools,State Surveys,Admission (School),Standards,Institutional Evaluation,Professional Associations,Public Schools

Many students apply for admission to higher institutions in other States and sections than those in which they have received their high school preparation. Many also seek certificates from examining and licensing boards, which have no direct means of knowing the standards of the schools from which the applicants come. The demand for this information led the Bureau of Education, first in the spring of 1913 and again in the autumn of 1914, to undertake the collection and preparation of lists of high schools and academies accredited by State universities, approved by State departments of education, or recognized by examining and certifying boards and by certain other agencies. This bulletin updates previous editions. It defines the terms &quot;accredited secondary school&quot; and &quot;unit&quot; and describes variations in requirements of accrediting agencies and methods of accrediting. The bulletin is divided into three parts. The first part contains lists of schools accredited by State universities and State officers of education. Part II contains the lists of the three principal associations which undertake to accredit schools. Part III lists schools that were omitted from lists in the first part due either to the fact that the States had no State universities admitting by certificate or to the failure of the State education departments to include private schools in their lists of approved secondary institutions. This section includes lists submitted to the Bureau by seven colleges and universities as well as the names of schools belonging to the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland.  Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Vocational Secondary Education. Bulletin, 1916, No. 21
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Vocational Education,State Aid,Career Guidance,Social Work,Secondary Education,Industrial Education,Definitions,Superintendents,National Organizations,Educational History,Institutional Characteristics,Industry,Employees,State Legislation,Educational Finance,Administrative Organization

This bulletin was prepared by the Committee on Vocational Education of the National Education Association. The objective was to prepare a report which would be of assistance to the average superintendent of schools in a community of ordinary size, were he to feel the need of introducing such work into his home school system. The committee, which was appointed by the president of the National Education Association at the meeting of the department of superintendence, consisted of educators, social workers, labor representatives, and businessmen. From time to time meetings of this committee have been held both in connection with meetings of the National Education Association and in connection with meetings of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. Specific chapters have been prepared, not by the committee as a whole, but by individual members of the committee or by persons selected by this committee. Contents include: (1) History and development of vocational secondary education; (2) Types of vocational secondary schools; (3) Definitions, analysis, and illustrative examples; (4) Some ways in which vocational education may be introduced; (5) Methods of organization; (6) Methods of gathering data about industry and industrial workers; (7) Relation between vocational education and vocational guidance; (8) Proper methods of financing; and (9) Problems of vocational education. An index is also included, and an appendix presents a Digest of laws of States that provide State aid for a more or less State-wide system of vocational education. (Contains 1 diagram, 2 charts, and 17 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications. Bulletin, 1916, No. 22
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1916-09-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Bibliographies,Professional Associations,Publications,Educational History,Educational Psychology,Curriculum,Elementary Secondary Education,Teacher Education,Professional Recognition,Higher Education,Business Education,Immigrants,Professional Education,School Administration,Agricultural Education,Teaching Methods,Library Services,Rural Education,School Buildings,Architecture,Moral Development,Religious Education,Hygiene,Sanitation,Physical Education,Socialization,Vocational Education,Gardening,Civics,Military Training,Deafness,Career Guidance,Womens Education,African American Education,Special Needs Students,Extension Education,Libraries,Military Personnel,Disabilities,Veterans

This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the library of the Bureau of Education in May 1916. The listing includes contents organized in these categories: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history and biography; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Pedagogics and didactics; (5) Educational psychology: Child study; (6) Special methods of instruction; (7) Special subjects of curriculum; (8) Rural education; (9) Secondary education; (10) Teachers: Training and professional status; (11) Higher education; (12) School administration; (13) School management; (14) School architecture; (15) School hygiene and sanitation; (16) Physical training; (17) Social aspects of education; (18) Moral education; (19) Religious education; (20) Manual and vocational training; (21) Vocational guidance; (22) Agricultural education: School gardens; (23) Commercial education; (24) Professional education; (25) Civic education; (26) Military training; (27) Schools for maimed soldiers; (28) Education of women; (29) Negro education; (30) Education of immigrants; (31) Education of deaf; (32) Exceptional children; (33) Education extension; and (34) Libraries and reading. [Compiled by the Library Division, Bureau of Education. Best copy available has been provided.]
Open-Air Schools. Bulletin, 1916, No. 23
Author: Kingsley, Sherman C.
Date: 1917-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Public Schools,Communicable Diseases,Physical Health,Child Health,Physical Disabilities,Educational Environment,Educational History,Costs,Equipment,School Nurses,Special Needs Students,Nutrition,Lunch Programs,School Health Services,Foreign Countries,Prevention,Hospitals,Curriculum,Program Effectiveness,Hygiene

Open-air schools represent one of the latest developments in public-school organization. They came as the result of a desire for better conservation of the health of those children who, by reason of a tuberculous affection, poor nourishment, or other debilitating conditions, were unable to profit physically and mentally by the life and work of regular indoor schools.  This method of dealing with physically defective children signalizes one of the most interesting and decided changes undertaken in school management for many centuries. Open-air schools are based on the conception that the first essential to a worthy education is sound bodily health. They have grown out of a new emphasis on the value of health and physical soundness and recently discovered facts bearing on the nature of certain diseases and the best methods of protecting human life from the possible effects of these diseases. The chief purposes of this bulletin are to record something of the history and progress of the open-air school movement, to point out some of the results which have been attained through this means of dealing with delicate school children, to designate in some detail the programs followed in such schools, and to bring together in a convenient form other information which may be needed by those who are planning to organize and equip schools of this character. Appended to this document are the following: (1) Social, economic, and hygienic conditions of 886 families of 1,062 open-air school pupils in 15 American cities; (2) Estimated expense of equipping and maintaining an open-window room with full regime of medical and nursing service, feeding, and rest; (3) Recipes for open-air schools; (4) List of Chicago menus, materials used, and their cost; (5) Suggestions for open-air classes; (6) Legislation and committee recommendations; and (7) Lists of open-air schools. (Contains 19 footnotes, 104 figures, 13 forms, an index, and a selected bibliography.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications. Bulletin, 1916, No. 24
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1916-10-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Bibliographies,Professional Associations,Publications,Educational History,Educational Psychology,Curriculum,Elementary Secondary Education,Teacher Education,Professional Recognition,Higher Education,Business Education,Professional Education,School Administration,Agricultural Education,Teaching Methods,Library Services,Rural Education,Moral Development,Religious Education,Hygiene,Sanitation,Physical Education,Socialization,Vocational Education,Civics,Career Guidance,Womens Education,African American Education,Special Needs Students,Extension Education,Libraries,Clubs,Home Economics,Play,Playgrounds,Educational Theories,Educational Practices,Military Training

This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education in October 1916. The listing includes contents organized in these categories: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history and biography; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Educational theory and practice; (5) Educational psychology: Child study; (6) Special subjects of curriculum; (7) Rural education; (8) Secondary education; (9) Teachers: Training and professional status; (10) Higher education; (11) School administration; (12) School management; (13) School hygiene and sanitation; (14) Physical training; (15) Play and playgrounds; (16) Social aspects of education; (17) Moral education; (18) Religious education; (19) Manual and vocational training; (20) Vocational guidance; (21) Agricultural education; (22) Home economics; (23) Commercial education; (24) Professional education; (25) Military training; (26) Boy scouts; (27) Exceptional children; and (28) Libraries and reading. [Compiled by the Library Division, Bureau of Education. Best copy available has been provided.]
Commercial Education: A Report on the Commercial Education Subsection of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress December, 1915 - January, 1916. Bulletin, 1916, No. 25
Author: Swigget, Glen Levin
Date: 1916-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Business Education,Urban Areas,Industrial Education,International Trade,Foreign Countries,Small Colleges,Elementary Schools,Secondary Schools,College Admission,Selective Admission,Courses,Languages,Geography,History,Social Studies,Mathematics Education,Banking,Accounting,Legal Responsibility,Administration,Special Schools,Youth Programs

The program of the subsection on commercial education of the education section of the Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Washington City December 27, 1915 to January 8, 1916 under the auspices of the U.S. Government, was so comprehensive and the papers of such value that the Commissioner of the Bureau of Education requested the assistant secretary general of the congress to prepare the papers for publication as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. Abstracts have been made by the writers of the papers or compiler of this bulletin. In a few cases the statement is taken from the official stenographic report. This document, which additionally includes information about the congress, the development of commercial education, and the congress program, is meant to satisfy the increasing general interest in commercial education in all parts of the country, and especially in the centers of urban population. An index is provided. (Contains 10 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]