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Excerpt from Conditions and Needs of Iowa Rural Schools: 1. Country Schools Statistics; 2. The Country School Problem; 3. Present Status of Consolidation; 4. One Phase of the Teacher Problem; 5. School Buildings and Grounds It was our purpose to secure accurate and complete reports from every rural school in Iowa, showing the enrollment, aver age daily attendance, length of the school year and salaries of teachers; but many secretaries found it impossible to furnish the data asked for, but schools reporting out of a total of By reference to Table N o. I the number of rural schools maintained in each county may be seen, as also the number of schools reporting. While the statistics are incomplete, they are sufficiently full to show conditions as they actually exist in this State. In Tables III, IV and V, showing average daily attendance, frac tions of less than one-half are omitted, while fractions of one half or over are counted as units. This report is issued in the hope of awakening greater public interest in the rural schools, to the end that country children may be gathered in better schoolhouses, trained by better teach ers and have that training extend through a longer school year without the interruptions now so common in the frequent change of teachers. 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.