Her research led Shelley to publish last month “Lancaster County’s One-Room Schools and the History of the Common School Movement.” The book explains the history of public education in Lancaster ...

North of Pierre, South Dakota, you will find Plainview school, a rustic one-room school house that brought accessible education to the Peoria township. Such schoolhouses helped shape rural students.

CHESAPEAKE — A globe of the world before Russia became a country. An American flag with 48 stars. An oil lamp, three wooden pencils and a hand bell. A beloved pillar-like potbelly stove anchoring the ...

HUNTINGTON — The Union School, often called the “Punkin Center School,” was a one-room schoolhouse on Guyan Creek Road near Glenwood, serving students in grades one through eight from 1899 to 1955. In ...

KEARNEY, Neb. (KOLN) - The floorboards creaked as Nora Lindner stepped into a one-room schoolhouse at the Trails and Rails Museum in Kearney. The retired teacher remembers attending a country school ...

Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a ...

My first experience with a one-room schoolhouse is from very early in life and somewhat unique. The first house I remember living in was a large, white, four-square home in Central Illinois in the ...

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities. Kids focused on learning basics like reading, ...

In Wichita, Kansas, a new type of K-12 school welcomed its first students this month. But the 15,000-square-foot Learning Lab, located on the second story of the city’s landmarked Union Station, doesn ...

This year marks Bramlet’s second year teaching at the one-room schoolhouse. Originally from Dillon and a University of Montana graduate, she fell in love with rural education during her senior year as ...

Gladys Mohler vividly remembers her first school. When she set off for class in the fall of 1932, the Excelsior School was just over the fence from her parents’ farm in Manor Township. Her dog would ...