The purpose of this study is to learn the true status of the rural teacher in Pennsylvania. The study is restricted for the most part to the facts and conditions pertaining to the teachers in the one-teacher schools. In some instances data will be given regarding the teachers in two-teacher schools, villages, and boroughs, either for the purpose…

This bulletin is the result of a study made in the Province of Ontario during the fall of 1914. The purpose of the investigation was, more than anything else, to seek some fair basis for comparison of the Schools of Old Ontario--wedged in as it is between New York and Michigan--and the States across the border. Chief attention is to rural life and…

The past year has witnessed considerable progress in the field of Negro education, despite adverse conditions brought about by the war. Probably the most significant event of the year was the appointment in Texas of a State supervisor of rural Negro schools, whose salary and expenses are paid entirely by the State. Short terms, poor schoolhouses,…