Excerpt from A Comparative Study of Achievement in Country and Town Schools In A Report on the Use of Some Standard Tests, Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction Studies in Educational Measure ments in Wisconsin, Bulletin No. 1, W. W. Theisen reports results for children in Wisconsin, of whom were in rural schools. He summarizes on page 22 as follows Judged by the Ayres stand ards, rural children in Wisconsin do not spell well. They average not less than 10 points below the standard in every grade. However, when compared with other classes of Wisconsin schools, as will be seen from Table 1, they are not conspicuously poorer nor better spell ers than the pupils in the cities and villages. The same author in the same report gives results of penmanship scored according to the Thorndike Handwriting Scale from 141 rural schools in 28 counties. He summarizes (p. 85) Rural schools on the whole make the best showing of Wisconsin schools in writing. Their quality is not inferior to that of other classes of schools, and their speed is more nearly in accord with desirable standards in most grades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.