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Mountain Plains Library Association, Silt, CO. Country School Legacy Project. – 1980
The document presents organizational details of the 18-month Country School Legacy Project (June 1980-December 1981) to begin an on-going inquiry into the history of rural education and current public policies which affect country schools and which will result in greater public use of library facilities and historical collections in public,…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Cultural Education, Curriculum, Educational History
Birkinshaw, Scott B. – 1981
This section of the Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association, traces the development of schools in Utah during the Territorial Period (1847-1896). Following a discussion of the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Schools, Cultural Background, Curriculum
Rankin, Dorothy, Ed. – 1981
As late as 1938 there were 200,000 one-room schools scattered throughout the United States. By 1978 there were little more than 1,000 in operation. Primary-source research on rural education has now been conducted by 23 researchers in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, sponsored by the Mountain…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Centers, Community Schools, Cultural Background
Embry, Jessie L. – 1981
The papers in this portion of the Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association, trace the development of Utah's country schools since 1896. "Country Schools as Historic Sites" describes the early schools as they…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Centers, Consolidated Schools, Cultural Background