. Village improvement . e illustra-tions of various methods which may be adoptedby those who have village improvement work incharge. CHAPTEE XnTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL No more important work for town improve-ment can be undertaken than that which is con-cerned with the public schools. This is true ofcity and country both, but it is most neglectedin the rural districts. Of all recent efforts forthe improvement of the country school thatwhich has proved most effective is the wide-spread movement for , therefore, first demands our attention. Consolidation of Country Schools.—Sch
. Village improvement . e illustra-tions of various methods which may be adoptedby those who have village improvement work incharge. CHAPTEE XnTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL No more important work for town improve-ment can be undertaken than that which is con-cerned with the public schools. This is true ofcity and country both, but it is most neglectedin the rural districts. Of all recent efforts forthe improvement of the country school thatwhich has proved most effective is the wide-spread movement for , therefore, first demands our attention. Consolidation of Country Schools.—School-con-solidation is the abandonment of the district, orone-room school, for the large and betterequipped central school-building to which pupilsare taken from the different districts byconveyance, wherever distance demands. Thatthis is the coming method of solving the coun-try-school problem is indicated by its adoptionin many States, both east and west, whose ex-perience, as shown in their official reports, has 250. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL 251 been so satisfactory in results that no one wouldthink of returning to the former district system. What are the advantages of consolidation?The most important only can be , better teachers, fewer in number, paidbetter salaries. The teacher in a one-room dis-trict school must attempt to teach many sub-jects ia a large number of small classes. In aconsolidated school each teacher has more timefor each subject and fewer subjects to , a better school-building and betterequipments for teacher and pupils. Third,the advantage of special teachers for specialwork, such as nature-study, gardening, sewing,domestic science, manual training, etc., whichcan hardly be introduced in the small districtschool. Fourth, in the consolidated schoolshigh-school work can be introduced, with thegreat advantage that the older pupils do notneed to go away from home to city , actual decrease in cost, per pupil, in spiteof the i
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