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call of the county superintendent. They receive 

 therefor, three dollars for one day's services and 

 five cents mileage each way for attendance. 

 Already a number of very successful conven- 

 tions have been held, wherein all school districts 

 in the counties have been represented. 



The county institutes in Pennsylvania are 

 largely attended by the public and are designed 

 to reach patrons as well as teachers. 



In Kansas, county superintendents have or- 

 ganized school-patrons' associations and school- 

 board associations, both of which definitely 

 purpose to bring together the school and the 

 home and the officers of the school into one 

 body and to co-operate with individuals for the 

 purpose of bettering the school conditions. 



Doubtless other states are carrying on similar 

 methods. 



An interesting movement wholly independent 

 of the Hesperia plan has recently been put into 

 operation under the leadership of Principal 

 Myron T. Scudder of the State Normal School, 

 New Paltz, N. Y. He has organized a series ol 

 country-school conferences. They grew out oi 

 a recognized need, but were an evolution rathei 

 than a definite scheme. The school commis- 

 sioner, the teachers, and the Grange people of 



