4 $53.25
Year ended June 30, 1915 54.92

Average monthly wages of teachers in rural districts in
South Dakota:[40]

Year ended June 30, 1915 $53.75
Year ended June 80, 1916 55.04

Average monthly salary of teachers in Nebraska, year ended
July, 1916:[41]

Males $73.21
Females 50.94

Average monthly wages of teachers in rural districts in
Minnesota, 1916:[42]

Men $62.00
Women 52.00

Teaching salaries of rural school-teachers in Wisconsin,
1914-15:[43]

Percentage receiving less than $40 0.2
" " $40-$49 78.9
" " 50-59 17.9
" " 60-69 2.4
" " 70-79 0.5
" " 80-89 0.1
" " 90-99 none

In regard to the influence of the nationality of the teacher upon her
work in a public school there have been no authoritative data
published. In a number of the immigrant colonies investigated by the
writer immigrant teachers were employed. While both the colonists and
their leaders claimed that a teacher of their own nationality can get
better results in her work than a native teacher, because of her
intimate knowledge of the colonists and their children, the school
authorities and the native neighbors did not believe there was any
difference. If a teacher of foreign parents was born in America or
immigrated in childhood, has received American schooling and normal
training, and if she speaks perfect English, knows and loves the
country, there cannot be any difference.

In one case the head of a native family expressed his dislike of a teacher
of Finnish nationality on account of her defective English and because she
taught foreign songs and plays to the American children. As the teacher was
on vacation, the writer could not interview her. The colonists themselves
believed that she was a good teacher, for the children liked her; and the
county superintendent was satisfied with her teaching progress.

In Vineland, New Jersey, there were four teachers in the public schools
of Italian parentage. These teachers would be counted as Americans in
every way. As they understand Italian, know the Italian immigrants and
their children, they get better results in their school and community