4. ONE-TEACHER SCHOOL IN FORT LAPWAI DISTRICT, IDAHO. Used as teacher training school by the Lewiston normal school.

B.

MODEL RURAL SCHOOL, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, MAYVILLE, N. DAK. Inside view, showing domestic science, manual training, and biology sections.

the normal schools and agricultural colleges, and to the rapidly changing policy of these schools toward rural-teacher training. Schools of education in colleges and universities are left out of consideration, since they do not, as a rule, offer specialized courses for rural teachers. High-school training classes and county training schools likewise are passed over, as they have already been treated fully in a recent publication of the Bureau of Education, and a discussion of them here would be superfluous.1

STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Out of 121 normal schools reporting, 36 have distinct departments for rural teachers; 19 others offer special courses, although not equipped with distinct departments; 28 offer instruction in some subjects for rural teachers separate from the general courses; while 41 schools make no special provision for rural teachers whatever. It is a very suggestive fact that 57 normal schools are equipped to give instruction in agriculture. Some of the schools have large school farms, or make use of portions of the school grounds for agricultural experiment purposes through gardening or experiment plats. The rural-school departments in many of the normal schools are reaching the rural population by means of an active extension service, through club work, rural-life conferences, rural surveys, and in other ways. A few of the schools report model rural schools erected upon their grounds, while others utilize one or more of the near-by rural schools for practice teaching.

1 Training Courses for Rural Teachers, Bulletin 1913, No. 2.

TABLE 3.-Work of normal schools in preparing rural teachers.