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The evolution of education in Webster County

Webster County schools have changed over the last 150 years and as technology continues to revolutionize education, schools are changing. Once the tables were made from pine wood covered with egg whites and potatoes charred. Today, every classroom in the Marshfield R-1 School District has an erasable board and through the Title I federal funds, an interactive whiteboard also known as "Smart Board". These projects allow teachers to what is on a computer screen in front of the classroom for students to interact with.

Over the years, the technology introduced in the class included the stereoscope, abacus, radio, overhead projector, TV, copiers, calculators, disks, laptops, Internet and interactive whiteboards. Before the advent and introduction of these technologies, the level of content knowledge in the classroom was limited by the education of the teacher.

"In our schools, every classroom in America must be connected to the information superhighway, with computers and software well, and well-trained teachers," said President Bill Clinton in his 1996 State of the Union Address Initiative introducing the President of Educational Technology.

In Webster County Historical Museum archive, superintendent of Jackson County Ellis reported the Board of Education Webster County was created February 24, 1853, and a map of the county in 1877 showed 10 schools. At one time the county had over 88 one-room schools to the rural consolidation began in the 1920s. In a 10-year time span between 1945 and 1955, the county went from 62 to 22 schools. On Jan. 14, 1965, the announcement was made that all county schools would be consolidated into four districts, Marshfield, Niangua, Seymour and Fordland. Rogersville, which included communities like Henderson, Panther Valley and White Oak, joined Greene County’s Logan R-8 district.

The county schools have changed a lot since 1853. Building designs were once simple and the community supported everything within the school.Farmers supplied the wood for the stove, parents and teachers built desks lived with families of rotation of a household. In the 1920s, a professor Webster County average annual wage was $ 75. School years revolved around harvest seasons and supplies were very simple - slate, chalk and a few pounds. Curriculum has changed too. Teaching and learning was essentially literacy, penmanship, arithmetic, and good manners.

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