Excerpt from Consolidated Rural Schools and Organization of a County System The territory over which consolidation will eventually extend in the United States is probably considerably greater than popularly supposed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Consolidated Rural School The value of co-operation in place of individualism is rapidly rising in the consciousness of the American people. For many reasons we are far more closely related to more people of the world than formerly and are more conscious of the relationship. This expansion of personality is ready to-day to conceive and to realize feelingly the brotherhood of man and both national and world citizenship. The adjoining farms or nearest small villages do not circumscribe the breadth of our interests, acquaintance, nor economic exchange. To-day we think more in terms of the county, the State, the nation, and the world, instead of provincially limiting ourselves to the farm and the little one-room school district. The automobile, telephone, good roads, trolley cars, newspapers, magazines, and larger administrative participation tend greatly to widen the area of our social connections. The stupendous world war with its unprecedented stimulus to close national organization of railroads, agriculture, and manufacturing, with all their implications of sacrificing individualism to social efficiency, has sent the world, and especially America, a long way toward a desirable organization of all of each nation's forces. The consolidated rural school is part and partner of this broader socialization and integration. It stands for educational efficiency in the interests of the nation and humanity by means of a greater degree of co-operation and organization over a wider area of territory. Already thousands of such schools have displaced the little one-room structures of restricted neighborhoods and mental outlooks from sea to sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Consolidated Rural Schools and the Motor Truck The publication of this bulletin is made possible in large measure through the hearty cooperation of the U. S. Bureau of Education, State Departments of Public Instruction, and of many county superintendents, principals, teachers and others who are interested in advancing rural community life and in placing at the disposal of the boy and girl of the village and country schools facilities equal to those enjoyed by the city boy and girl. Grateful acknowledgment is made to all who have thus cooperated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Consolidated Rural Schools The principle of the consolidated school is simple: A strictly modern school building is erected, when possible, in the center of the township; and provision is made to transport all pupils who live too far away to walk. In some cases, the school authorities own the conveyance, and some times it is owned by private individuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Rural Education and the Consolidated School The author is convinced that the time has come when we must insist upon a full program of reconstruction from the ground up, and begin to build at once. The gist of the problem is to establish a new school in which the essentials of a modern education can be taught. The old school, as still found in over ninety per cent of the rural districts, does not lend itself to such a program; and no amount of repair, addition, varnish, or veneer will transform it into an efficient, modern institution. Rebuilding is absolutely essential. Some friends of the rural school advocate comprehensive changes in the curriculum and justly demand that the training of country boys and girls shall culminate in a complete industrial and vocational education, adapted to twentieth-century life. They are agreed that rural teachers must measure up professionally and otherwise to their colleagues in our best school systems; they recognize that salaries paid must be adequate to insure high-class training and instruction; and yet they fail to see that these things are impossible in an obsolete school system in which the first elements of success are wanting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Special Instructions for the Organization of Rural Graded Schools To Trustees and Teachers: The growth of rural graded schools employing two teachers or three teachers has brought better educational facilities to nearly 300 districts containing nearly 25,000 children. This bulletin is reprinted for four reasons: - 1. To emphasize the necessity of careful organization, especially in the first four grades. The daily programs for two-teacher and three-teacher schools are especially recommended for careful examination. Every school receiving State aid must file with the State Superintendent a copy of each teacher's daily program before this aid can be paid. 2. To call attention to the supplementary reading books, and, incidentally, to the 1914 Library List. 3. To urge proper equipment in each classroom. In many schools this minimum equipment can be improved, especially in blackboards, maps and desks. 4. In the hope of stimulating lagging communities to take advantage of the rural graded school Act. Each school should file at the end of the first month its application for State aid during the current year. All such applications should reach the State Superintendent between December 1st and December 15th. If principals and teachers would forward specimen programs without written requests, their co-operation would facilitate the handling of applications by the State Department of Education. At the close of the session each principal should file his annual report with the State Superintendent of Education, the County Superintendent of Education, and the Clerk of the Local Board of Trustees. Schools failing to forward this report are liable to forfeit their right to State aid the ensuing year. The three-teacher school guarantees adequate instruction. South Carolina needs at least 500 such educational centers. The present development points to the establishment of many additional high schools and rural graded schools during 1914-15. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
