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title: 'Possibilities of the Rural School'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Jessie Elvira Wright Whitcomb'
date: 1916-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 22'
- 'Psalms 78'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/whitcomb-1916-possibilities-of-the-rural-school
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# Possibilities of the Rural School

Kansas 1916 report: farm practices and rural-school reform. Discusses corn culture, immigrant farmers, and community-led improvements—playgrounds, domestic-science wing, manual training and extension work.

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