More contact between urban and rural schools is needed if the discrepancies in quality are to be eliminated. (MB)

It is necessary to intensify mass cultural work by the evening and correspondence school in the countryside and to make the school the cultural center for rural workers. (Author)

Discusses problems confronting universal rural education in the secondary grades including a lack of resources, inadequate numbers of schools, limited instructional materials, and teachers with specialized training for rural education programs. (MB)

With the great diversity of tasks involved in preparing school children for life and for labor activity, the problem of instilling in them a vocational interest in work continues to be the most acute. (Author/MB)

The teacher, as the main representative of the intelligentsia in the country-side, must master the technique of instilling in workers an excellent knowledge and deep love of the land. The training of rural teachers must include this facet of his future duties. (Author/MB)

Developments in preschool education of rural youth is reviewed by a workshop conference of preschool teachers. (MB)

A number of methodological conclusions and common recommendations for all regions of the Belorussian SSR on the compilations of long-range plans for the development and location of the school network in rural regions are suggested. (Author/KM)

The present top-priority task of public education agencies is to strengthen rural schools with teaching personnel. Special attention must be given to training teachers in vocational-technical schools that prepare specialists for the countryside. (Author)

Increasing importance is attached to developmental instruction in which the assimilation of knowledge and skills in the fundamentals of agriculture goes hand in hand with increased educational activity on the part of pupils and is organically linked with the formation of a scientific world view and with their intellectual and rounded development.…

The combining of Agricultural and technical work is characteristic of the content and structure of the polytechnical labor training of Russian rural children in secondary schools. Ways for improving labor education in rural schools are specifically discussed. (Author/RM)

How local Komsomol organizations help schools to complete repairs and construction work, to equip subject rooms and athletic areas, and to organize universal technical education is examined. (Author/MB)

Addresses the inappropriateness of methods designed for large classrooms in a small rural school. Offers advantages of small class that are lost in stereotypes based on larger classes. Discusses orientation to the average pupil contrasted with opportunities for more individualized materials in a small class. Criticizes the predominance of frontal…

Describes the teaching-upbringing complex (UVK) educational facilities in rural areas. Argues that UVKs create conditions that foster social, spiritual, and moral-esthetic development of rural students. Emphasizes the need for UVKs to provide guidance in literature, music, culture, and ethics. Encourages the channeling of students' free time into…