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PROBLEM 46

PLANNING A RURAL SCHOOL

Problem: Superintendent Wilkins of Hartman County, N. K., desires to present before a body of district trustees the plans for a new four-room community school. He has secured floor plans from a foundation interested in the improvement of rural schools.

The choice lies between the plans shown in Diagrams 1 and 2. After careful consideration of the plans, Superintendent Wilkins decides to present No. 2 as his recommendation.

1. List the advantages of both plans.

2. Do you agree with the choice made? Why?

3. Are there any disadvantages in either plan? Any faults which should be corrected?

4. Do you accept the width of these classrooms as desirable? The size of the stage? The location of doors? The location of cloakrooms? The amount of blackboard?

5. If asked the cost of construction by the Board of Education, how would you estimate it?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ASHBAUGH, E. J. AND STEVENSON, P. R. A Score Card for Rural School Buildings. Educational Research Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 34-35, 47. Ohio State University, January 23, 1924.

BUTTERWORTH, J. E. The Butterworth School Building Score Card. World Book Co., 1922.

CARNEY, M. Country Life and the Country School. Row, Peterson & Co., Chicago, 1912.

Community School Plans. Bulletin No. 3. Issued by The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Nashville, Tenn., 1924.

CUBBERLEY, E. P. Rural Life and Education. Houghton Mifflin, 1914.

ENGELHARDT, N. L. AND HART, F. W. Report and Recommendations on Certain School Buildings of Delaware, Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 45-58. Service Citizens of Delaware, Wilmington, 1919.

LATHROP, E. A. Improving Rural Schools by Standardization. Proceedings of the National Education Association, pp. 334-35. National Education Association, Washington, D. C., 1921.

Standardization of Rural Schools. Proceedings of the National Education Association, pp. 345-52. National Education Association, Washington, D. C., 1923.

PRATT, M. G. A Survey of the First Supervisory District of Oswego County,
State of New York, pp. 75-83. Board of Education, Oswego, 1916.
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American School Board Journal, 70:79-80, 130, January, 1925.

STRAYER, G. D. AND ENGELHARDT, N. L. Score Card for Village and Rural
School Buildings of Four Teachers or Less, pp. 3-22. Bureau of Publications,
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