This collection contains surveys, newspaper articles, magazine articles, photographs and other materials concerning elementary schools designated as Laboratory Schools by the West Georgia College Rural Teacher Training Education Program.

This collection also contains personal correspondence between parents, teachers, and West Georgia College staff concerning the operation of the Laboratory Schools, as well as observations and essays by the student teachers who worked in these schools as part of the rural teacher training program.

The first series of this collection contains articles, newspapers, reports, surveys, personal correspondence, student documents, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Sand Hill Elementary School from the years 1937 to 1964.

Also in this collection are magazine clippings, plans, photographs, and documents pertaining to other laboratory schools (Tallapoosa School, Oak Mountain School, and Flat Rocks School) associated with the West Georgia College Rural Teacher Education Program and the Rural Teacher Program broadly. In addition, the collection contains a bound copy of the “Let's Do It Now Series” which was created specifically to aid educational initiatives at the West Georgia Laboratory Schools.