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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...