One-room schoolhouse, one big dream. ... its members say they will buy the 160-year-old school and reopen it to ... a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the public understand country ...

In 1950, 75 years ago, 3,295 school districts were scattered across South Dakota. An overwhelming majority of these were ...

Elsewhere one-room teachers, more open to new methods, take advantage of their unique situation to create a modern ideal: the ungraded school. In a five-year-old, electrically heated brick school ...

From left, Ed Rockwell, 78, Leroy Staib, 83, and Don Taylor, 80, former students at the Plumtrees School, are photographed in their old one-room schoolhouse, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Carol Kaliff ...

By the late 1970s, the one-room school had become the relic of a bygone era. Public school buses now picked up country kids so they would have the larger, town-school experience.

Opinion. One-room schools the heart and history of rural communities. January 29, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. by Curtis Varnell ...

Education ‘grows on trees’ at 137-year-old one room school house by: Mike Lowe, Photojournalist Kevin Doellman. Posted: Nov 14, 2023 / 06:04 PM CST. Updated: Nov 15, 2023 / 10:15 AM CST.

Old homes are full of history and surprises. In this occasional feature, we ask homeowners to share some of the quirky ...

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 ...

The Hutton Valley school is one of two rural schools NCS operates. The other, another former one-room school called Forest Dell, is located about 20 miles away. After students complete sixth grade, ...