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 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 These remarkable transformations are worthy of the closest study, interpretation, and publicity. Isolated reports, surveys, and single chapters fail to do justice to the theme and fail also in acquainting many people with this type of solution of the great rural-school problem. We greatly need a first-class, thoroughgoing book, based on investigation, nation-wide acquaintance with this type of school, and thor oughly and cautiously worked out and illustrated. Such a volume few busy educators have time to produce. Feeling the need, however, the editor has done his best in producing such a volume by the method of co-operation of specialists found successful in other volumes of this series. We do not hesitate to pioneer and open up the way for more thorough going works in the future. Our purpose is practical, directed to immediate and wide publicity of a very worthy hypothesis for the solution of a very grave problem, how to secure better rural education in this democracy. 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.
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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 Rural School Consolidation: A Bulletin of Information Issued by the Oklahoma State Board of Education 1911 I have always been a firm believer in educating the farmer's child at home. I am further of the opinion that he is entitled to every advantage possible to be given him by the State in which he lives, believing that a better educated farming population will make a greater and better State and Nation. I am thoroughly familiar with farm life, and realize that the greater per cent of the farmers are not so situated that they can send their boys and girls away from home, and pay the necessary expenses while attending the high school and college. These conditions have made me a strong advocate of a consolidated school system. Leaders of educational thought in all sections are advocating the consolidation of schools. Practically all of the county superintendents of Oklahoma are in favor of the movement, and they should be supported in their efforts to establish this system. In urging consolidation of schools in Oklahoma, I realize that while in many communities the conditions are ideal, there are also other communities in which consolidation is next to impossible. I would not advise that any consolidated school district be formed, (with a view to transporting the children), which has a valuation of less than $300,000.00. It is my belief that such a condition would be burdensome. On the other hand, I insist that in all districts of $400,000.00 valuation, it is advisable, and in districts where as much as $500,000.00 valuation could be had, there is but little argument that can be offered in opposition to consolidation with transportation. I do not advise consolidation where it has to be done by a bare majority of those interested in the school. A very strong minority opposing a bare majority will oftentimes make school matters very unpleasant. My experience has been that harmony in school affairs is one of the essentials to the success of the school. The first step toward consolidation should be to secure the assistance and co-operation of the county superintendent, and be governed by his advice throughout, in these matters. For the purpose of encouraging the organization of a system of consolidated schools, the State Board of Education instructed its committee on rural schools to collect information and publish a bulletin. They have proceeded under many difficulties. This bulletin undertakes to explain how consolidated schools may be organized and maintained, and sets forth the comparative cost, and the amount of money that will be available from the State to aid the movement in each county. 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 State Aid to Consolidated, Graded and Rural Schools: August First, Nineteen Hundred and Eleven Sec. 1. Purpose.] The purpose of this act shall be to aid, encourage, stimulate, and standardize the rural and smaller graded schools of this state and thereby increase the efficiency of the entire educational system of this state. 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 Story of Rural School Consolidation in Indiana No State in the American union has remained more continuously in the educational spotlight than Indiana. The elements of this continuity have been both practical and romantic, but unquestionably the state's crowning educational achievement has been the movement to divorce Mud from Mathematics - to lift the rural school child from a mud-lathered highway into a comfortable conveyance and transport him to a modern, sanitary school house wherein he could have his mind on 7 x 1 = 7, instead of on the mud that made his boots a burden. Indiana has been almost theatrical in her educational progress. In 1916 the Hoosier commonwealth will be one hundred years old. Within that century the state has marched from the tents of plebeianism into proud recognition as a center of learning. Posey county, now one of the strongest intellectual units in all Hoosierdom, once had a comedy rating as the illiteracy. 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 Consolidation of Rural Schools It is this fact that makes such a bulletin valuable to the can did, earnest investigator. -if the bulletin is entirely successful it will leave him thinking. Serving the debater also serves the man who wishes to know both sides before making up his mind. Of course the editors cannot make a side strong which is inherently weak., They Can only give such arguments as are used in the actual discussion of the question. They cannot sift the arguments, however absurdly unsound they may be; and quoting arguments does not mean that the editors endorse them. Thanks are especiall'y due to Principal Ernest F. Ashbaugh, Bartlesville. Okla., for valuable assistance. 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.
