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Rice, Russ – Appalachia, 1987
Time and modern education caught up with the nine pupils of Daniel's Creek Elementary School, one of the last remaining one-room schoolhouses in Kentucky. The school was closed at the end of the 1986-87 school year by the county school board, after much opposition from a citizen's group. (JMM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, One Teacher Schools, Personal Narratives, Rural Schools
Gulliford, Andrew – 1985
Oral history plays a vital role in accurate preservation of the rural school experience and the actual restoration of some of the country's 212,000 one-room school buildings. Oral histories provide valuable, first-hand information on who taught in and who attended one-room schools, what the curriculum included, what the building looked like, and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Historic Sites, One Teacher Schools