Education: Schoolmarm

There are still some 138,500 one-room rural schools in the U. S., but full-dress modern education tends to forget about them. TIME herewith reports a normal day in such a school:

In Iowa City (pop. 16,000), where she rooms with a private family, Miss Margaret Campbell got up at 5:45 (it was still dark) one morning last week When she was dressed, in a neat blue silk blouse and a blue wool skirt, she went outdoors to start her 1933 Ford coupe and her day. Miss Campbell, 26, teaches school in a typical one-room country...

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