1. The degree of training of rural teachers in the subject-matter 98 2. Present lack of professional training 100 3. The effects of inexperience 101 4. Short tenure of service in rural schools 102 5. Level of teaching efficiency low 103 6. Improvement through consolidated schools 104 =The Training of Rural Teachers= 1. Inexperienced and untrained teachers begin in the rural schools 105 2. Normal schools supply few teachers to rural schools 106 3. A reasonable demand for training of rural teachers 107 4. Rural teacher training in normal high schools 107 5. The rural teacher's training must be adapted to spirit of rural school 108 =Salaries of Rural Teachers= 1. Salary as a measure of efficiency 109 2. Salaries of rural teachers compared with town and city teachers 110 3. Necessity of increased salaries 111 4. Increase in salary and in efficiency must go together 111 5. Salaries in consolidated schools 112 =Supervision of Rural Teaching= 1. Impossibility of giving district schools efficient supervision 112 2. Obstacle in number of schools and frequent change of teachers 113 3. Comparison of work of county superintendent with city superintendent 114 4. Political handicaps on county superintendent 115 5. The necessity of better educational standards and better salary for the county superintendent 116 6. Women as county superintendents 116 7. Efficient supervision possible only under a consolidated system 117 RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL MONOGRAPHS _GENERAL EDUCATIONAL THEORY_ DEWEY'S MORAL PRINCIPLES IN EDUCATION .35 ELIOT'S EDUCATION FOR EFFICIENCY .35 ELIOT'S TENDENCY TO THE CONCRETE AND PRACTICAL IN MODERN EDUCATION .35 EMERSON'S EDUCATION .35 FISKE'S THE MEANING OF INFANCY .35 HYDE'S THE TEACHER'S PHILOSOPHY .35 PALMER'S THE IDEAL TEACHER .35 PROSSER'S THE TEACHER AND OLD AGE .60 TERMAN'S THE TEACHER'S HEALTH .60 THORNDIKE'S INDIVIDUALITY .35 _ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION OF SCHOOLS_