Date of Award

4-1-1981

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Specialist in Education (Ed.S.)

Department

Educational Leadership

First Advisor

Dr. Paul C. Kennedy

Abstract

The minimum competency movement can be viewed as a national response of concern about the supposed decline in academic skills in the nation's schools. When high school graduates have trouble reading a newspaper, balancing a checkbook, or filling out a job application, questions about the quality of their schooling are bound to be raised.

Comments

A Field Project Presented to the Graduate Faculty University of Nebraska at Omaha in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Specialist in Education

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