The Denver star., 1916-02-19
EDUCATION BOARD
AIDS our SCHOOLS
Institutions In Several States
Receive Liberal Sums.
PLANS FOR LARGER WORK,

Ends~ss homsmakse@ Clubs With
Thousands to Teach the Domestic
Arts-oehsms to Build Homes Fer
Principals and Teachers Of censeil-
dated Rueai Schools.
The general education board In New
York on Tuesdny. Feb. 8, included In
connection with Its annual appropria-
tons for the various educational insu.
tutions the following schools conduct
cd by the colored people:
The Calhoun school, Calhoun, Ala.
5000; Fort Valley high and industrial
school. Fort Valley. Ga, 5000; Manas-
sas Industrial school. Manassas, Va,
5000: from the Anna T. Jeanes fund
for employing Industrial teachers for
Negroes, $4,000; for homemakers'
clubs among Negroes In the south, $16.-
go. divided among states as follows:
Alabama, $2,7JO; Arkansas. $2,200;
Georgia. $1,000; kentucky. $1,000;
North Carolina. $500: Tennessee, ST.
800; Virginia, $500.
Homemakers' clubs are organized
throughout the southern states by the
state agents for Negro rural schools,
cooperating with the Industrial teach
es supported by the Jeanes fund.
They are neighborhood clubs formed
for the purpose Of instruction In cook
ing and housekeeping. The girls and
their mothers are brought together
after school hours at the school build
ing by trained teachers of sewing and
cooking and other domestic arts and
are there taught the elementary prin-
ciples OF good housekeeping.
The general education board has
also appropriated So, 600 to assist con-
homes for principals and teachers in
connection with the schools.
The improvement of rural education
in America depends on the consolida-
don of rural schools more than on any
other single thing. A difficulty arises.
however. because when five or six one
room schools are brought together the
little villages and the open country do
not afford satisfactory homes for so
many teachers.
In consequence teachers who would
otherwise be willing to teach in rural
schools are driven to seek positions In
towns. The general education board
IL to try an experiment for the purpose
Of solving this problem. The board
proposes to cooperate with the author
tiles OF consolidated rural schools 80
as to build comfortable home. adjoin-
ing . school. for the principal and
teachers. and they hope that this home
will simultaneously serve as labo-
rntory for the teaching OF good house.
keeping to the girls in the school. The
first experiments will probably be
made in the northwest
The general education board has
been constituted for the year 1915 as
follows: Frederick T. Gates. chair.
man: Wallace Buttrick. secretary: L.
c. Sage and Abraham Flexner. assist
ant secretaries: l.. G. Myers. treasurer.
l. NJ. Dashiell. assistant treasurer.
Members, Frederick I. Gates, Walter
II. Page, J. d. Rockefeller. Jr.. Albert
Shaw, Wallace Buttrick. Starr J. Muir
ply. Edwin A. Alderman. Hollis b.
Fnssell, Harry Pratt Judson. Charles
W. Eliot. Andrew Carnegie, Edgar l..
Marston. Wickli1e Rose. Jerome d.
Greene. Anson Phelps Stokes. Abra.
ham Flexner md George f. Vincent
The board administers funds estab-
lished by Mr.. John u. Rockefeller for
the promotion Of education throughout
the United States without distinction
OF race sex or creed