Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provide a better course of training in the regular grades of existing secondary schools. The prevailing school system varies widely in efficiency in different sections of the country; in large cities, such as Boston, New York, and Chicago, it usually fulfills its purpose; but in the scattered rural communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown...
Again it is planned to dedicate a whole week, throughout the U. S., to musical activities. Between May 4 and 10, churches, clubs, societies, schools, colleges, universities, radio stations, municipal departments, rural organizations, industrial plants, department stores will cooperate in bombarding the people with a continuous blast of melody and rhythm-by voices, trained and untrained, in solos, in chorus, by all manner and combinations of instruments, mouth-organs, pipe-organs. There will be lectures on music, hundreds and hundreds of recitals and concerts, articles in newspapers and magazines, exhibits of musical books in libraries. If each and every citizen...
...absence of Professor Ford necessitates several changes in the Social Ethics department. Social Ethics 7, a half-course on Rural Social Development scheduled to be given in the second half-year, will be omitted. Social Ethics 28, Management of Institutions and Welfare Agencies, will be in charge of Mr. Alfred F. Whitman '08, Executive Secretary of the Boston Children's Aid Association. Social Ethics 29, Community Organization, will be given by Mr. Maurice B. Hexter, A. M. '22, Executive Director of the Federated Jewish Charities of Boston. The two last named are graduate school courses regularly, given by Professor Ford...
Bulletin No. 41 (1923) of the Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior at Washington tells the story with charts and statistics. It is entitled Consolidation of Schools and Transportation of Pupils, and its author is J. F. Abel, Assistant in Rural Education...
...problem of rural education is difficult, in view of the fact that the 18,000,000 young people between the ages of 5 and 20 are scattered over an immense territory under extremely varied social and physical conditions. Two years ago one-fourth of the rural pupils in the U. S. attended one-room schools, which numbered 187,951. The aim of educators now-local, town, county, state and national-is to decrease that number, and to increase the number of institutions like the following, which Mr Abel gives as typical...