Excerpt from Plans for School Improvement in Village and Rural Communities, Missouri That men are created equal is unquestioned; that they remain so is sophistry. The schoolboy with shining morning face is at the parting of the ways. If city bred, his school days are spent in costly buildings with modern equipment and under the tuition of experts. The country lad has none of these, and yet his numbers are greater, while from his sturdy ranks come the men who do great things command armies, build industries, separate continents. From the outland, where life throbs strongest, the air is purest, the thoughts cleanest, come these handicapped youths, to engage in the battle of life and win or lose. 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 School Consolidation in Missouri The University of Missouri has established a Bureau of Con solidation to which letters upon any of the questions involved in consolidation may be addressed. Plats and information about proposed plans may be sent to the University if an opinion as to methods and procedure is desired. As far as possible, capable lecturers will be sent out where needed. The State Department and the State Normal Schools are as deeply interested in consolidation as is the University, and will give assistance upon application. Address all communications with the University to the Bureau of Consolidation, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. 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 in Missouri: Or "Boy Wanted," A Comedy for Girls, in Two Acts This manual is intended as a working guide for teachers, school officers, and patrons who are seeking to reorganize their schools into consolidated districts as graded schools and rural high schools, under the provisions of recent legislative enactment. The purpose has been to make a clear statement of the intimate relation of strong, well-organized rural schools to the welfare of rural life in general; to point out the particular advantages of consolidation, without in any way covering over the disadvantages that the system may have; and to explain in detail the law and the steps that must be taken in order to gain the benefit of the new system, and the state aid for building purposes and school maintenance offered under it. It is quite clear to the average man that the present unit of school organization is quite too small for best results. From a business point of view, indeed, it is so wasteful that sound principles of economy demand a reorganization. While our civilization was in the pioneer stage the one-room school answered our purpose well enough, but today things are different. The gradual transition in rural life towards real scientific farming, together with the many perplexing problems brought into being by shift in rural population occasioned by the industrial call of the city and the attraction of cheap western lands, have placed new, grave responsibilities upon the school. No retarded weakling school can furnish the educated leadership just now needed in the open country. The old school, in very fact, is responsible for much of the present "ineffective farming, lack of ideals, and drift to town." Consolidation of schools is no experiment. It is proving successful in every section of the country. No school that has tried consolidation has ever gone back to the old way. In Missouri the old leakage and waste have run quite long enough. It harbingers new and better things to see our school officials and patrons study, agitate, and plan as they are doing throughout the state at the present time. Word comes almost daily from some new proposed consolidation district. Scores of these will be voted on during the coming spring. But now that consolidation is coming to our state, will it appear in its best form? This must be our greatest concern for the immediate future. 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 Improvement of Rural Schools The rural schools are about to receive from educators the attention that they deserve. The modern industrial city, with its peculiar patho logical conditions, has commanded both public and professional interest, but the rural com munity and the rural school have been neglected. Indeed, in many respects, rural life and rural institutions have lost ground. Relatively speak ing, they are not so efficient as they once were. 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.
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts. An Introduction to Community Development shows how planners can utilize local economic interests and integrate finance and marketing considerations into their strategy. Most importantly, the book is strongly focused on outcomes, encouraging students to ask: what is best practice when it comes to planning for communities, and how do we accurately measure the results of planning practice? This newly revised and updated edition includes: increased coverage of sustainability issues, discussion of localism and its relation to community development, quality of life, community well-being and public health considerations, and content on local food systems. Each chapter provides a range of reading materials for the student, supplemented with text boxes, a chapter outline, keywords, and reference lists, and new skills based exercises at the end of each chapter to help students turn their learning into action, making this the most user-friendly text for community development now available.
