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Worker Drug Use and Workplace Policies and Programs: Results from the 1994 and 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
Although the sample design has changed several times since its inception in 1971, the NHSDA has continued to be representative of the U.S. general population age 12 and older. The 1997 NHSDA employed a multistage area probability sample of 24,505 persons interviewed January-December 1997. Response rates for household screening and for interviewing were 93 percent and 78 percent, respectively. Blacks, Hispanics, young people (i.e., age 12-34), and residents of Arizona and California were oversampled to improve the accuracy of estimates for those populations.
The first stage of sampling in the NHSDA is the selection of 115 primary sampling units (PSUs), each consisting of counties (i.e., administrative subdivisions of States) or groups of counties (e.g., metropolitan areas). Within these PSUs, segments (e.g., city blocks or enumeration districts) are selected. In each of the segments, a listing of all dwellings is made. From the eligible sample units, which can be either households or units within group quarters, sample persons are randomly selected, with unequal probabilities, using a screening procedure carried out by interviewers. Oversampling of certain subpopulations is accomplished, by assigning the appropriate selection probabilities at the PSU, segment, and person levels. In 1997, these subpopulations were blacks, Hispanics, young people (i.e., age 12-34), and residents of Arizona and California.
In 1997, the NHSDA sampled segments were allocated equally into four separate samples, one for each 3-month period during the year, so that the survey was essentially continuously in the field. A more complete description of the 1997 NHSDA sample design can be found in the 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse Sample Design Report (Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA, 1998).
Selection of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs)
The 1997 NHSDA used the same 115 PSUs that were selected for the 1996 NHSDA. These 115 PSUs were selected to represent the nation=s total eligible population, including areas of high Hispanic concentration. The PSUs were metropolitan areas, counties, groups of counties, and independent cities. The 115 PSUs comprised 43 certainty PSUs and 72 noncertainty PSUs. The 43 certainty PSUs were metropolitan areas with high Hispanic concentration that have been included in the NHSDA with certainty since 1988. The 72 noncertainty PSUs were selected with probabilities proportional to size and minimal replacement to represent the balance of the nation outside the 43 certainty PSUs.
The noncertainty PSUs were selected with probabilities proportional to a composite size measure. The composite size measure was defined as the sum of racial/ethnic group dwelling counts weighted by the specified racial/ethnic sampling rates. This selection scheme allowed for targeting particular racial/ethnic subpopulation sample sizes. The use of a composite size measure ensured: (1) roughly equal sample sizes per sample subarea (the second stage unit of selection) and (2) roughly equal probabilities of selecting eligible individuals (the fifth or final-stage unit of selection) within race/ethnicity, and age group.
Selection of the Second-Stage Sample: Subareas within PSUs
About 96 percent of the subareas (i.e., area segments) selected in the 1997 NHSDA, or 1,860 out of 1,940 total selected segments, were previously used in the 1996 NHSDA. The remaining four percent were new subareas that had to be selected in 1996 because there were insufficient unused listing units in some 1996 subareas to provide the required number of sample listing units per subarea.
Both the 1996 NHSDA sample subareas and the new subareas selected in 1997 were drawn from the 1990 Census files. Within each sample PSU, subareas were defined by combining adjacent blocks to create non-overlapping area segments that contained at least 90 occupied dwellings. The area segments from each stratum of each of the PSUs were selected with probabilities proportional to a composite size measure. For each stratum, a composite size measure equaled a weighted average of the numbers of Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic non-black dwelling units with weights proportional to the desired racial/ethnic sampling rates.
Selection of the Third-Stage Sample: Listing Units within Subareas
Projections indicated that screenings had to be completed for approximately 50,000 dwelling units in order to identify sufficient dwelling units to yield Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and age domain samples of the desired size. Assuming an average 93 percent screening completion rate and a projected average 85 percent listing unit eligibility rate, approximately 63,000 listings had to be selected. A listing unit was ineligible for the study if it was: (a) vacant; (b) a vacation, second, or temporary home; (c) not a dwelling unit; (d) a military facility whose occupants were only military personnel; or (e) an institutional housing facility. A sample of 67,049 dwelling units was selected; of these, 56,912 were to determined to be eligible sample units.
Dwelling unit listings were selected using systematic sampling. The sampled listings were then sent to the field for screening. After first determining that a sampled listing was eligible for the study, the interviewer completed a dwelling roster that listed all residents age 12 and older with their age and race/ethnicity. This roster formed the basis for the within-dwelling sampling of individuals.
Within-Dwelling Unit Sampling
The 1997 NHSDA used a within-dwelling unit sample selection approach in which each dwelling was classified according to the race/ethnicity of the head of the dwelling. The interviewers also determined the age domains represented by individuals residing in each dwelling in terms of the presence or absence of individuals age 12-17, 18-25, 26-34, 35-49, and 50 and older.
Data Collection Methodology
NHSDA data are collected through in-person interviews with sample persons, incorporating procedures to maximize respondents' cooperation and willingness to report honestly about their illicit drug use behavior. Introductory letters are sent to sampled addresses, followed by an interviewer visit. A five-minute screening procedure involves listing all household members along with their basic demographic data and possible selection of sample person(s). This selection process is designed to provide the necessary sample sizes for specified population groups by selecting up to two persons per household, depending on the composition of the household.
Interviewers attempt to conduct the survey in a private place, away from other household members. The administration of the interview averages about an hour in length, and includes a combination of interviewer-administered and self-administered questions. In the latter, the answers to sensitive questions, such as those dealing with illicit drug use, are recorded by the respondent and not seen or reviewed by the interviewer. After the self-administered answer sheets are completed, they are placed by the respondent in an envelope, which is sealed and mailed to the contractor with no personal identifying information attached.
Data Processing
Upon receipt, questionnaires are checked for critical identification and demographic data, then keyed to disk. This creates a file consisting of one record for each completed interview. Extensive within-record consistency checks and resolution of most inconsistencies and missing data are done using machine editing routines, called logical imputation. For some key variables that still have missing values after the application of logical imputation, statistical imputation is used to replace the missing data with appropriate valid response codes.
Two types of statistical imputation procedures are used. Hot-deck imputation involves the replacement of a missing value with a valid code taken from another respondent who is "similar" and has complete data. Logistic regression models are also used to determine replacement values for some variables.
Weighting Procedures
The population estimates in this report are based on sample survey data rather than on complete data for the population. Therefore, the data were weighted to obtain unbiased estimates of drug use in the population represented by the 1997 NHSDA. The basic sampling weights for the 1997 NHSDA are equal to the inverse of the probabilities of selection of sample respondents. In other words, the smaller a respondent=s chance of entering the sample, the larger the weight of that respondent in the calculation of unbiased estimates for the target population.
The probability of selection of a respondent can be computed as the product of four stagewise sampling probabilities. The probability of selecting a respondent equals the product of the following: (1) the probability of selecting the respondent=s PSU, (2) the probability of selecting the respondent=s subarea given selection of his/her PSU, (3) the probability of selecting the respondent=s dwelling unit given selection of his/her subarea, and 4) the probability of selecting the respondent given selection of his/her dwelling unit.
To obtain the final NHSDA weights, the basic sampling weights were adjusted to account for dwelling unit-level and individual-level nonresponse and subsampling of individuals within dwelling units, and further adjusted to ensure consistency with intercensal population projections obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau. The adjustments that were made to the basic sampling weights are as follows:
Adjustment 2. Dwelling unit roster adjustment. This adjustment was based on a logistic regression model using the same predictor variables used in Adjustment 1 together with age, race/ethnicity, and sex.
Adjustment 3. Adjustment for individual nonresponse (incomplete interviews). This adjustment was based on a logistic regression model using the same predictor variables as Adjustment 2.
Adjustment 4. Post-stratification to ensure consistency with U.S. Census Bureau projections. This adjustment was designed to ensure consistency between the sums of weights within specified demographic subgroups and U.S. Census Bureau projections of the sizes of the subgroups. The post-stratification totals were obtained from the National Estimates and Projections Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau and were classified by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin.
The precise method of statistical estimation applied in the logistic regression analyses of Chapter 6 is called Aweighted maximum likelihood estimation.@ This estimation method is implemented in the computer program SUDAN and discussed in Shah et al. (1995) and Shah et al. (1997).
Limitations of the Data
Target Population
An important limitation of the NHSDA estimates of drug use prevalence is that they are only designed to describe the target population of the survey (i.e., the civilian non-institutionalized population). Although this includes more than 98 percent of the total U.S. population, it does exclude some important and unique subpopulations who may have very different substance use patterns. For example, the survey excludes active military personnel, who have been shown to have significantly lower rates of illicit drug use. The survey also excludes persons living in institutional group quarters, such as prisons and residential drug treatment centers, who have been shown to have higher rates of illicit drug use. Homeless persons who are not living in a shelter at the time of the survey, another population shown to have higher than average rates of illicit drug use, are also excluded.
Sampling Error and Statistical Significance
The sampling error of an estimate is the error caused by the selection of a sample instead of conducting a census of the population. Sampling error is reduced by selecting a large sample and by using efficient sample design and estimation strategies such as stratification, optimal allocation, and ratio estimation.
With the use of probability sampling methods in the NHSDA, it is possible to develop estimates of sampling error from the survey data. These estimates, which are presented in Appendix B, have been calculated for all prevalence estimates presented in this report using a software package called SUDAAN that implements a Taylor series linearization approach to take into account the effects of the complex NHSDA design features (Shah, Barnwell, Hunt, & LaVange, 1994). The sampling errors are used to identify unreliable estimates and to test for the statistical significance of differences between estimates.
Estimates considered to be unreliable due
to unacceptably large sampling error are noted by asterisks (*) in the
tables in Appendix A. The criterion used for suppressing estimates was
based on the relative standard error (RSE), which is defined as the ratio
of the standard error over the estimate. The log transformation of the
proportion estimate (p) was used to calculate the RSE. Specifically, rates
and corresponding estimated number of users were suppressed if:
When making comparisons of estimates for different population subgroups from the same data year, the covariance term, which is usually small and positive, has typically been ignored. This results in somewhat conservative tests of hypotheses that will sometimes fail to establish statistical significance when in fact it exists.
Nonsampling Error
Nonsampling errors occur from nonresponse, coding errors, computer processing errors, errors in the sampling frame, reporting errors, and other errors. Nonsampling errors in the NHSDA are reduced through data editing, statistical adjustments for nonresponse, and close monitoring and periodic retraining of interviewers. Although nonsampling errors can often be much larger than sampling errors, measurement of most nonsampling errors is difficult or impossible. However, some indication of the effects of some types of nonsampling errors can be obtained through proxy measures such as response rates and from other research studies.
In the 1997 NHSDA, of the 81,068 eligible households sampled, 75,136 were successfully screened for a screening response rate of 92.7 percent. In these screened households, a total of 31,290 sample persons were selected, and completed interviews were obtained from 24,505 of these sample persons, for an interview response rate of 78.3 percent. Nearly eleven percent, or 3,365 of the sample persons were classified as refusals, 2,198 (7.0%) were not available or never at home, and 1,151 (3.7%) did not participate for various other reasons, such as physical or mental incompetence or language barrier. The response rate was highest among those age 12-17 (83%). Response rates were also higher among Hispanics (83%) and blacks (82%) than among whites (76%).
Among survey participants, item response rates were above 98 percent for most questionnaire items. However, inconsistent responses for some items, including the drug use items, were common. Estimates of drug use from the NHSDA are based on the responses to multiple questions by respondents, so that the maximum amount of information is used in determining whether a respondent is classified as a drug user. Inconsistencies in responses are resolved through a logical editing process that involves some judgement on the part of survey analysts and is a potential source of nonsampling error. For example, a respondent might report his/her most recent use of a drug as more than a month ago, but in a later question report having used in the past month. This inconsistency could occur because the interviewer may have developed greater rapport with the respondent in the latter stages of the interview, leading to more openness on the part of the respondent. In this example, the respondent would be considered a past-month user. In 1997, 22 percent of the estimate of past-month marijuana use and 53 percent of the past-month cocaine use estimate is based on such cases.
NHSDA estimates are based on self-reports of drug use, and their value depends on respondents' truthfulness and memory. Although many studies have generally established the validity of self-report data and the NHSDA procedures are designed to encourage honesty and recall, some degree of underreporting is assumed. No adjustment to NHSDA data is made to correct for this. The methodology used in the NHSDA has been shown to produce more valid results than other self-report methods, such as telephone interviews (Turner, Lessler, & Gfroerer, 1992; Aquilino, 1994). However, comparisons of NHSDA data with data from surveys conducted in classrooms suggest that underreporting of drug use by youth in their homes may be substantial (Gfroerer, Wright, & Kopstein, 1997).
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Shah, Babubhai V., Barnwell, Beth G., Bieler, Gayle (1997) SUDAAN User=s Manual, Relaease 7.5. Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute.
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Works of art can lead a double life. Often, one side is revealed to the public while the other--the back--remains hidden from view. In Backstories: The Other Side of Art, these hidden sides come to light as a selection of works tell their little-known "backstories," revealing how they were made, how they have been cared for by collectors, the many changes they have survived, or the period during which they were created. The exhibition spans five centuries and includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture, silver, and porcelain.
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The black-and-white entry up top was kept color-neutral to allow for the bold colors throughout the rest of the house.
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Yikes, way too cutesy for me.
As a former scenic artist, I am very wary of decorative painting. It is hard to walk the fine, fine line between grandma's wrapping paper on the wall and good taste. It can certainly be done, but often isn't. I like the bold statements of the images above, but it has to be carefully considered with your lifestyle and other furnishings.
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The Career Decisions of Young Men
AbstractThis paper provides structural estimates of a dynamic model of schooling, work, and occupational choice decisions based on eleven years of observations on a sample of young men from the 1979 youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLSY). The authors find that a suitably extended human capital investment model can in fact do an excellent job of fitting observed data on school attendance, work, occupational choices, and wages in the NLSY data on young men and also produces reasonable forecasts of future work decisions and wage patterns. Copyright 1997 by the University of Chicago.
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Prepare large gingerbread kid cookies using the Pillsbury ready made dough. Students may decorate their cookie and then mark the graph showing the part of the cookie they took a bite of first (head, arm, or leg). (See Direction sheet and photos)
|I invited parents to school for a "Gingerbread Day Celebration". I set up six stations for the parents to rotate around with their child. Click on the station names below for printable direction pages that you can place at each station. I have also added photos of the activities. The photos may take a minute or two to download.
|Gingerbread Symmetry
Paper cut-out decorating activity in which the gingerbread man has to be decorated the same on both sides.
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Students use Gingerbread Playdough to roll out and cut Gingerbread Cookie Shapes. Students place cookies on cookie sheets according to size. (See direction sheet and photo)
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Students play Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby Board Game by rolling die and using their counting skills to move along the board.
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Students match correct cupcake liners marked 1-12 to a numbered muffin pan. Students count correct number of Gingerbread Kids to place in each liner. (I used a medium size gingerbread punch to make gingerbread counters.) (See direction sheet and photo)
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The Associated Press | March 24,2013KANSAS CITY, Mo. An early spring snowstorm delayed flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.
The snow started falling around midnight in northeast Colorado and then moved into northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska.
Ten to 15 inches of snowfall had fallen by late Saturday morning north of Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas and northeast Colorado, with another 3 inches expected in the area, said Jerry Killingsworth, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
The interstate had been shut down Saturday from Denver to Colby, Kan., because of poor visibility.
Its a mess here, said Killingsworth, who is based in Goodland, Kan., which had received 14 inches. Heavy, wet snow, tree limbs down.
As the system moved eastward, it threatened to inconvenience fans attending the NCAA mens college basketball tournament in Kansas City.
Pamela Murray, an NWS meteorologist in Pleasant Hill, Mo., said Kansas City and western Missouri would see light showers and drizzle before the precipitation switched over to snow Saturday afternoon.
The heaviest snowfall was expected overnight, with overall accumulations in eastern Kansas and central Missouri mostly ranging from 5 to 9 inches.
Dan Gavitt, vice president of the NCAA mens basketball championships, said teams and officials already are onsite and that no game delays are anticipated.
This region routinely has winter snow and has the appropriate equipment and procedures to manage these winter conditions, Gavitt said in written statement.
We encourage fans planning to attend games to pay attention to the weather, use good judgment and follow any directions from local authorities regarding travel and weather.
Denver International Airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said Saturday that some arriving flights have been delayed by more than two hours, but only about two dozen flights have been canceled.
Meanwhile, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said up to a foot of new snow in the mountains could create dangerous avalanche conditions.
The system will move into Illinois and Indiana overnight and into today. Central Illinois could see a band of heavy snow with accumulations of 6 to 9 inches, while areas north of Peoria could get 4 to 6 inches.
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I have come up with a new argument for abortion, and I was wondering if anyone would rebut it for me. I am defining morality as whatever is best for society (feel free to take issue with this too).
The argument against abortion compares it to murder, so this argument will explore the differences between abortions and murder. There are three main reasons that murder is immoral:
1. The dead person's contribution to society: most people contribute to society, so killing a random person will eliminate their further contributions and be bad for society.
2. A general sense of security: if the law allows anyone to kill anyone, people will be scared and waste time defending themselves, decreasing productivity, and being bad for society.
3. Interpersonal connections: a person builds connections in their life, and killing one person will have damaging effects on those that they have made connections with.
Now it will be explained how abortion is different in these three points.
1. The never to be born person's contribution to society: although it is likely the person would have contributed had they been alive, it is possible they would have had a negative contribution had they been a criminal. However, not allowing them to be born means a definite contribution to society by reducing the population, and contributing to stem cell research (although the second one will not be always be a contribution, when research is no longer needed).
2. A general sense of security: if only non-self aware fetuses are killed, then the people who would have been affected by a lack of security are not threatened, and do not lose their sense of security.
3. Interpersonal connections: the only people that are connected to the fetus are the ones who have decided that their need to get pregnant is more important to them than their want to keep their child alive, meaning that it is probably better for them for the child to die than to survive.
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So imagine your 11-year-old daughter has stomach pains. You and your boyfriend decide to take her to the hospital. After some tests, the cause of the stomach pain is revealed: Your 11-year-old daughter doesn't have the flu nor food poisoning. Nope. She's pregnant. So, just as you're trying to adjust to this astounding news, your 42-year-old boyfriend asks for the keys to the car so he can run an errand. And he never returns. This story gets much, much, much worse before it's over.
When it turns out your 11-year-old daughter is pregnant and your middle-aged boyfriend suddenly disappears, it doesn't take a genius to put two and two together. But then the boyfriend saves you the trouble by calling you and apologizing for knocking up your 11-year-old kid.
And it gets worse. The man, Gregory Johns, then robs a couple at knife-point. There, he reportedly leaves a note also apologizing to the 11-year-old girl for sexually assaulting her.
And it gets worse. Then the guy breaks into the home of an elderly woman, and allegedly gags her and ties her up for 12 hours. He also calls his girlfriend and tells her that the cops will have to kill him before he goes back to jail. Oh yes, did I mention? He'd been in jail 10 times already -- on charges ranging from aggravated assault to armed robbery.
Eventually, the dude holes up in a hotel in Florida, where the cops find him. He reportedly comes out of the bathroom with a knife in hand, threatens the police, and they fatally shoot him.
While we're all pondering why this mother let her 11-year-old girl around her criminal boyfriend (because this is no doubt what everyone will focus on), let's consider some other facts: We now reportedly have an 11-year-old girl impregnated by her mother's dead middle-aged boyfriend. Who is going to say this is a blessing?
I hope the mother does what is right for this little girl for a change and that does not include forcing her to have her dead criminal boyfriend's baby.
What would you do as a mother in this situation?
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Also, I am 26 and if I became pregnant tomorrow, yes, I would be happy because I've been with my man for 5 years, I want children and have even started doing research(came to this site to get a better feel for parents today), but I would be terrified!! I, a 26 year old grown ass woman, would be absolutely terrified. I can barely even begin to imagine how awful an 11 year old would feel :(
I'm sorry I thought it was called Pro choice not Pro force. The mother messed up big time and now she needs to have a grown up conversation with her daughter and LET HER DAUGHTER DECIDE. I know someone who was forced by her parents to have an abortion and things have not turned out well for that family at all. The mother and a Doctor need to sit down and tell the daughter all the information and risks of carrying her baby to term and let her decide. If the daughter decides to keep it, the mother should support the child since she got her daughter into the situation. If the daughter decides to abort the mother should pay for that. After its all said and done someone should sit down and explain to the mother her responsibilities as a parent. Bottom line whether your pro choice or pro life it is the 11 year old that has to live with this so she should get to decide. I am pro life but would never presume to think I know what is best for every victim in circumstances like this. By the way, I still think every child born is a blessing. I wont condemn this girl for whatever choice she makes but I will never stop believing babies are blessings, ever. After all none of us are responsible for our parents choices.
Oh my god. If that was my daughter, I can honestly say I would drag her to the abortion clinic by her hair if it was necessary. An 11 year old's body is not meant to and cannot carry a baby safely. But then again, that would never be my daughter because I would never date a disgrace such as this.
@CPN322 Did the child that the baby is is carrying commit a crime? NO! Yeah its gunna be tough for the girl. But do you expect her to take murdering a BABY WITH A HEARTBEAT AND BRAIN very well? I think not. I would NEVER NEVER EVER blame the rape victim at all. I have been hurt by guys sexually but if they would have impregnanted me I would have carried the baby and gave it up for adpotion. This poor baby is gunna need years upon years of treatment. As for the mother I wont judge her. It took me a long time for me to tell my mother about how I was treated. Then it took me even longer for me to tell her I was not a virgin. So I think we all need to lay off the mom for goodness sakes and start praying for the family for those of us who pray.
And this makes me very happy that I am single! And that I do background checks on any man that I am involved with and make no apologizes for it. Not that I am putting all the blame on this mother, she may have known she may not have known about his criminal past. She might have one as well. We don't know enough about it. I would take this poor child to a doctor and have the pregnancy terminated, as long as the doctor thought it was safe. What a horrible situation, my heart goes out to the 11 year-old. And lets hope her mother makes better choices in the next guy she brings home...what a disaster.


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This 3 credit Sterling College field study program is an opportunity for Sterling College students to diversify their northern Sterling experience with an intensive field course in Belize, a tropical Central American country. This research oriented course builds on skills learned at Sterling College and allows students to implement these skills in a tropical ecosystem. A one credit Introduction to Tropical Ecosystems class is offered during the fall semester and is recommended for participation in this field study program. Partnering with local non-profit biological research stations, Sterling students have the opportunity to explore the impacts of land use on the Monkey River watershed and a coral reef.
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To compare all aspects of a tropical watershed with those of a temperate watershed.
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Before the consolidation of school districts in 1962, rural students in Wisconsin attended small schools that were within walking distance of their homes. The Library is attempting to list and locate each of those Wood County schools. This is a challenging task, since many early records have been lost. Additionally, before 1915, schools were not named and only designated by their district number. Some schools were moved from one location to another, while others burned down or were replaced with new buildings. The number of schools varied, but there were 94 rural schools in 1914, though that may have included some in villages. Many locations are approximate and additional information is always welcome.
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History of Wood County, Wisconsin compiled by George O. Jones, Norman S. McVean and others : illustrated. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1923., Chapter XII, also available online
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