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Representing 14 countries, the visitors are spending a year in the United States, studying field problems of rural electrification and administration...
...Illinois 1,000 rural schools have closed (TIME...
...California 50 rural schools have closed, with more shutdowns likely...
...less than $1,200 annually. Nearly 8% are paid less than $600 for the present school year. Living costs have advanced over 20%, teachers' salaries less than 7%. As salaries rise in industry and private employment, teacher shortages appear in the best-paying city systems, are intensified in rural areas. Unless a way is found to relieve the financial difficulties of teachers, our schools will suffer and millions of our children will be handicapped for life. If our schools are to carry effectively the increased wartime burdens, they must have federal financial help...
...these masses, if they are helped to liberal education, that the best hope probably lies. Readers who wish to learn something of what Dr. Eckstein, for all his great usefulness, is not equipped to tell, are referred to John F. Embree's unparalleled book on rural Japanese life: Suye Mura: A Japanese Village...