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 ...

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 ...

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 ...