The Corn Belt countryside was once dotted with hundreds and hundreds of one-room schools. They played a vital role in rural neighborhoods, serving not only as schoolhouses but also as PFOP: Rural ...

A look at the Internet will verify that there are still some one- and two-room ... other rural schools of the day as to classroom setup, supplies and programs. There were framed pictures of ...

Once surrounded by a vibrant community of farmers, the one-room school served ... state's students were enrolled in school, and less than 25% attended regularly. In rural areas, students attended ...

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.

The “Prairie Schools” in Morgan County, and elsewhere, were a product of the Homestead Act of 1862, which opened the American West with the promise of virtually free land. Now, 154 years later ...

LEE — The Lee Library and the Lee Historical Society will host a N.H. Humanities Council program titled “New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools ... This program is free and open to the ...

One-room schools still exist in America. They are a legacy of a less mobile, more rural time in American history. Mostly serving isolated communities, the remaining schools require one teacher to ...

Though only three students attend the one-room ... and the school — and if you close the school, you basically close the town.” She spoke with the crew about the heritage of rural schools ...

One thousand Illinois schools have closed recently because poorly paid teachers are taking war jobs. Most of the shutdowns are one-room rural schools—the 9,703 one-room schools of Illinois ...

Despite the big trend toward consolidation, some 10,000 one-room schools still function in rural America. The number has been dropping steadily: from 196,037, or 70% of public grade schools ...

said he has increased funding over the years to provide additional staff to one-room schools, but it is still a challenge to find and retain teachers to work in rural communities. Lower pay ...