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Audio-Graphic Network Aids Rural High Schools

1969; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 44; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00098655.1969.11478357

1939-912X

Robert F. Campbell,

Diverse Education Studies and Reforms

With the help of Federal funds a county in Appalachia has both expanded its counseling program and merged its schools into a single administrative unit with one curriculum and one master schedule, all tied together by an audio-graphic network. We thank the U.S. Ofice of Education for forwarding this article to us. The author is the executive director of the Southern Education Reporting Service in Nashville, Tennessee. dren. As the high school enrollment figures suggest, rural Etowah County's teen-age population has been declining in recent years. The other school units in the county -Gadsden City and Attalla City-operate independently and serve most of the urban population. Like the rest of Appalachia, rural Etowah County is predominantly white, and the 169 Negro pupils are distributed among 6 of the county's elementary and high schools, with the largest number, 56, comprising about 10 per cent of the student body at Gaston High. A combination of a low tax base and a