. Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Montana . Helena Schoolroom —23- Rural Education in Montana. Mothers Club—Apqar Rural School According to the nationally ac-cepted definition, schools are com-monly considered rural whenthey serve communities of 2,500population or less. Montana hasonly between 25 and 30 communi-ties that are above this figure outof some 1,500 communities, sofrom this standpoint Montana canbe considered almost totally , for the purposes of thisreport we are considering thosecommunities with one and two-room schools as rur
. Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Montana . Helena Schoolroom —23- Rural Education in Montana. Mothers Club—Apqar Rural School According to the nationally ac-cepted definition, schools are com-monly considered rural whenthey serve communities of 2,500population or less. Montana hasonly between 25 and 30 communi-ties that are above this figure outof some 1,500 communities, sofrom this standpoint Montana canbe considered almost totally , for the purposes of thisreport we are considering thosecommunities with one and two-room schools as rural, and lastyear Montana had 900 of theseone-room schools and 113 two-room schools This education in the Little Red Schoolhouse has been disappearing from the Montana sceneand has been supplanted by the consolidated rural school, by the yellow school bus, by the privatecar, by the school-year-home-in-town, and by the State Correspondence School. Just as the worldhas grown closer together through modern communication and transportation, so the rural and ur-ban communities are closer in Montana. Better roads and more cars have broug
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