Show RURAL SCHOOLS OFFER MANY PROBLEMS it la Is well known that despite tho the constant exodus from rural to urban soi the bulk bulb of tho the cb children Ildren to be educated are still living in areas of low density usually designated as aa rural and including all places ot of 2500 population or less states katherine Kather lne M cook specialist in rural education united states office ot of education recent daia data compiled in the office of education she continued show that go 90 per cent of at tho the schools are located in such areas that in them 53 per cent of 0 the total amber of children are enrolled and 68 per cent of the total number ot of teachers are employed here apparently const considered lored from the standpoint ot of numbers alone Is found our largest educational problem that schools in rural communities aro are below the standard set tor for those in urban communities in length ot of term type ot of buildings and organization alon qualifications and salaries ot of teachers regularity in attendance holding power and pupil achievement are well recognized recognize facts cacti tha widest disparities in standards occur when small one and two teacher schools usually attended jy by farm children are ara compared with those thore in id more populous and wealthier wealth lei districts district so cities in particular studies of pupil mout men mea aured bi standard teas generally indicate that pupils mate better progress to in consolidated schools than in one and two teacher schools and still hilll better progress la in larger larger school systems sy stema up to tha th point of a school largo large enough to havo have a teacher per grade school I 1 achievement practically parallels size 0 of school there are tin in the LInI united ted one teacher schools schoola while the number has been reduced materially in the past decade progress has been spasmodic and sectional oven even within states several important agricultural states have scarcely been touched by the movement for consolidating small schools |