Last week, as an extension of the social studies curriculum, second graders at Glen Head School dressed up as students from long ago and studied how school differed from today versus over 100 years ...

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 ...

Mary Jo Fairhead felt that something was missing at the South Dakota public schools where she taught for over a decade, so she quit and started one in her home. The main challenge she's working to ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series on one-room schoolhouses: their history and their present status in rural communities. If you have a story about attending a one-room ...

PRUDENCE ISLAND – The tiny one-room schoolhouse that island residents fought to keep open doesn't have any students this year, but that doesn't mean it's closed for good. Jess Friswell, who sits on ...

At one point in time not so long ago, the one-room schoolhouse was ubiquitous across Nebraska and the Great Plains. After virtually disappearing a few years ago, is it possible the seemingly dying ...

From left, Roy and Peggy Stevens and Lorraine Hamilton, all Valley REC members with the Southern Huntingdon County Education Foundation; Melissa Shetrom and Doug Roles, members of Valley REC’s grant ...

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 ...

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Prudence Island has the only operational one-room schoolhouse in Rhode Island, but no students are enrolled this year. A single senior graduated from the Prudence Island School last year, and the ...