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Yarbrough, Rachel; Gilman, David Alan – Educational Leadership, 2006
Facing financial difficulties, the Webster County Public School System in rural Kentucky implemented a four-day school week to save money on transportation and staffing. The district's research in the experience of other rural districts had indicated that such a calendar change could increase efficiency and also yield some unexpected benefits.…
Descriptors: Counties, School Schedules, Rural Education, Rural Schools
Training Courses for Rural Teachers. Bulletin, 1913, No. 2. Whole Number 509
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Monahan, A. C.; Wright, Robert H. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The improvement of the rural schools of the United States is the most important school problem. The most important factor in their improvement must be better educated and better trained teachers. The education and training of teachers should always have some special reference to the work of the schools in which they are to teach. Therefore any…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Teacher Education Programs, Schools of Education
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1937 [Report of the Commissioner of Education]
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Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
This Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1937 includes the annual report from the Commissioner of Education. The Commissioner's portion of this report is divided into several sections. The first section discusses: (1) In Public Schools; (2) Conservation Education; (3) Curricular and Other Interests;…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Conservation Education, Curriculum, Rural Education