EDUCATIONAL NEWS AND EDITORIAL COMMENT As the result of an experiment conducted by an energetic young school teacher a few years ago in one of the rural districts of the state of Washington, a movement has been A Home for launched to provide the rural teacher with a home the Rural Teacher adjacent to, or part of, the schoolhouse. The young teacher in question, being unable to find a family that would accept her as a boarder for the school term, persuaded the school authorities to move a

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... cook-house into the school yard, in which she lived for the entire term. This scheme worked so well that the following year a cottage was erected for the use of the teacher. This idea of the teacher's cottage, or "teacherage," at once received the support of the state superintendent of Washington, and thus spread to other districts. From Washington the idea has spread to other states, until it is represented at the present time by at least one teacher's cottage in each of 36 states. Texas leads with 167 cottages, Washington is second with io8, and Minnesota third with 52.