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Rural Kansas Schools Bibliography

Woodcut by Hershel C. Logan showing a country school that according to the artist, was "on old U.S. 40 Highway near Manhattan, Kansas."Allen, George A., Jr. Better Schools for Kansas: Rural and Grade Department. Topeka, KS: State Printer, 1928. (SP 379/K13st).

__________. Better Schools for Kansas: Rural and Grade Department. Topeka, KS: State Printer, 1931. (SP 379/K13st).

Althaus, Carl B. School District Reorganization Manual: Facts, Principles, and Procedures Relative to the Reorganization of School Districts in Kansas. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1945. (SP 378/Z/Sch6).

__________. The Organization and Financing of Special High School Provisions in Kansas. Lawrence, KS: Author, 1931. (K379.1/AL79).

Barber, Marshall A. The Schoolhouse at Prairie View. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1953. (K/B/B233).

Baringer, Minnie D. "A Kansas Rural School During the 1890's." Heritage of Kansas 7 (May 1963): 14-32. (SP 370.7/Z/En3h/V. 7/no. 2).

Bird, Roy. "The Rural Intellectuals: Kansas Country Schools." Heritage of the Great Plains 22 (Winter 1989): 12-19. (SP 370.7/Z/En3h/V. 22/no. 1).

Brown, Minter E. "New Educational Demands of Rural Kansas." Kansas Teacher and Western School Journal 47 (February 1919): 7 (K370.6/K13/v. 47/no. 8).

Dick, Everett N. "Jeddo School, District 29, Allen County." From Horses to Horsepower: Life in Kansas, 1900-1925. Topeka, KS: KSHS, 1986. (Oversize/SP/906/K13/D55/pp. 71-80).

Edwards, Ralph M. "The County Superintendent and Rural School Supervision." Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia Bulletin of Information 20 (July 1940): 1-67. (SP 370.7/Z/G76b/v. 20/no. 7).

Euler, Harrison L. County Unification in Kansas. New York, NY: Teachers' College Columbia University, 1935. (K352/Eu53).

Fairchild, E.T. Bulletin of Information Regarding Consolidation of Rural Schools. Topeka, KS: State Printing Office, 1908. (SP 379/K13rub).

Farrell, F.D. "Kansas Rural Institutions: Holcomb Consolidated School." Agricultural Experiment Station Circular 266 (August 1950): 1-44. (SP 630.7/Z/Ex7c/Circ. 266).

Ford, Donald L. Rural Schools of Brown County, Kansas, Before Unification. Hiawatha, KS: Author, 1988-89. (K379.5/B81/F751/v. 1-2).

Fuller, Wayne E. Country Schoolteaching on the Sod-House Frontier." Arizona and the West: Quarterly Journal of History 17 (Summer 1975): 121-140. (979.105/Ar47/V. 17/no. 2).

Gulliford, Andrew. America's Country Schools. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1984. (370.977/G951).

Hare, May. Unit Program in Social Studies. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1934-36. (SP 379/K13ess).

Hilbert, Lyle W. "A Study of the Status of the Rural High School Principal in Kansas." Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia Bulletin of Information. Topeka, KS: State Printer, 1938. (SP 370.7/Z/G76b/V.18/no. 10).

Photograph of an interior of the Herkimer School in Marshall County, 1900s.Holton, E.L. Score Card for Judging Rural and Village Schools. Manhattan, KS: Kansas State Agricultural College, n.d. (SP 630.7/I/Pam.v.1).

Kansas State Board of Education. Course of Study for Rural Schools of Kansas. Topeka, KS: State Printing, 1913. (SP 379/K13ruc/1913).

Kansas Superintendent of Public Instruction. "Report of the Work of the Rural-School Supervisors." Twenty-First Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kansas. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1918. (SP 379/K13/21st/1917-1918/pp. 19-30).

__________. "Revised Statement of Plan and Requirements for the Standardization of Elementary Schools." Twenty-First Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kansas. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1918. (SP 379/K13/21st/1917-1918/pp. 31-35).

Keckeisen, Sara J. (Sara Ellen Judge). Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier, Eastern and Central Kansas. N.p.: Mountain Plains Library Association, 1981. (K372/J896).

Keckeisen, Sara J. (Sara Ellen Judge). "Country Schools." Kansas Portraits. Topeka, KS: KSHS, 1985. (SP 906/K13kp/p. 53).

Kimble, Betty. "Rural Education." Progress in Kansas 6 (March 1940): 116-117. (K381/K13p/V. 6/no. 4).

Knecht, Robert L. Preliminary Guide to the Unpublished Records and Papers in the Kansas State Historical Society That Relate to Country Schools. Topeka, KS: KSHS, 1981. (SP 906/K13ma/Pam.v.1/no. 4).

Markham, W.T. "Kansas Rural Schools." Thirty-Second Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1940. (SP 630.6/K13/32nd/pp. 24-32).

__________. Rural School Bulletin. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1937. (SP 379/K13rub).

__________. Rural School Bulletin: A Call to Rural Education. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1934. (SP 379/K13rub).

__________. "The Outlook for the Rural School." Twenty-Ninth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1935. (SP 630.6/K13/V. 34/pp. 30-34).

McBane, Joanne. "Learning and the One-Room Country School." Heritage of the Great Plains 22 (Winter 1989): 26-35. (SP 370.7/Z/En3h/V. 22/no. 1).

Miley, Jess W. Detail of Requirements for Standardization of Rural and Graded Schools. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1925. (SP 379/K13st).

Mitchell, Phonce'. From Public Haunt Exempt! Columbus, KS: Ward Printing, 1986. (K/B/M695).

O'Brien, Francis P. and Thomas J. Smart. The Organization and Distinctive Features of the Shawnee-Mission Rural High School, Johnson County, Kansas. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1923. (K378/Z/Sch6).

"One-Room Rural School May Come Back to Life." Hutchinson News. Oct. 30, 1966. [1 p.]. (Reel: H2104).

Porter, Kenneth W. "Catharine Emma Wiggins: Pupil and Teacher in Northwest Kansas, 1888-1895." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 1 (Spring 1978): 16-38. (SP 906/K13qh/V. 1/no. 1).

Ross, W.D. Standard Rural Schools: Requirements and Suggestions of the State Board of Education. Topeka, KS: State Printer, 1916. (SP 379/K13st).

__________. Standardization of Rural Schools in Kansas. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1917. (SP 379/K13st).

__________. Standardization of Schools: Revised Statement of Plan and Requirements, 1918. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1918. (SP 379/K13st).

Samuelson, Bill. One Room Country Schools of Kansas. Emporia, KS: Chester Press, 1995. (SP 370.7/L/Ed8p).

Schadt, Rodney M. "The Independent Rural High School District in Kansas." Doctorate's dissertation. Northwestern University, 1956. (Reel: LM 106).

School of Education. "Faculty Looks at Small Schools." University of Kansas Newsletter 80 (Feb. 21, 1981): 1 and 8. (SP 378/Z/Sch6n/V. 80/no. 25).

"School Then and Now." Heritage of Kansas 7 (May 1963): 1-14. (SP 370.7/Z/En3h/V. 7/no. 2).

Schroeder, Dave. "Lakeside School (1876-1942): A One-Teacher School District in Kansas." Heritage of the Great Plains 22 (Winter 1989): 20-25. (SP 370.7/Z/En3h/V. 22/no. 1).

Stacey, W.A. "Why a Good Rural School Is Good." Kansas Teacher 50 (Mar. 1940): 5-6. (K370.6/K13/no. 7).

Stark, Emma. "The Largest Rural School in Kansas." Kansas Teacher 49 (May 1940): 16-21. (K370.6/K13/V. 49/no. 2).

Thompson, Nona B. "Teen-Age Teach'." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 12 (Summer 1989): 127-141. (SP 906/K13qh/V. 12/no. 2).

Turner, George C. Revised Rural School Bulletin. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1939. (SP 379/K13rub).

University of Kansas. "Little Schools on the Prairie: Music Integral to Frontier Schools." School of Education Newsletter 80 (May 1981): 4-5. (SP 378/Z/Sch6n/V. 80/no. 39).

Wooster, Lorraine E. Kansas Rural-School Bulletin, 1922. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing, 1922. (SP 379/K13rub).

__________. Standardization of Schools: Revised Statement of Plan and Requirements, 1919. Topeka, KS: State Printer, 1919. (SP 379/K13st).

Wright, Willard A. and Wilfred H. Pine. "Costs of Rural High Schools in Central Kansas, 1956-57." Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 429. Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, 1961. (SP 630.7/Z/Ex7/V. 18/Bull. 429).