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Celis, William – 2002
In the Four Corners region of rural southwest Colorado is Battle Rock Charter School--a one-room school attended by students in grades 1-6 that live in McElmo Canyon. For most of the 1900s, the canyon's isolation meant that people lived and worked as they had in the previous century, and the community was allowed to retain its tiny school because…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Schools
Noseworthy, Randy P. – 1997
During the mid-1930s, the main line of the Newfoundland (Canada) Railway stretched 547 miles from St. John's to Port aux Basques, and railway workers and their families lived along the line in small isolated settlements. The provincial department of education, the Newfoundland Railway, and the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company devised an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Educational History, Elementary Education

Gulliford, Andrew – 1996
As late as 1913, half of U.S. schoolchildren were enrolled in the country's 212,000 one-room schools--the heart of American education. Although only about 428 of these schools remain in use as of 1994, the country school continues to be a powerful cultural symbol. The first section of this book examines country schools' educational and cultural…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Architecture, Educational Environment, Educational History
Duling, Gretchen A. – 1997
This book examines Gallia County (Ohio) one-room schools through the oral life histories of 14 retired female teachers. Interviews with the teachers focused on conditions and practices in one-room schoolhouses in the early to mid-20th century in rural southeastern Ohio, and on the common characteristics of one-room school teachers who became rural…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Educational History, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Fuller, Wayne E. – 1994
This illustrated book chronicles the history of the one-room school in the Midwest and its vital influence on American education from the pioneer era through consolidation after World War II. The Midwest's one-room schools were the most democratic in the nation. Located in small independent school districts, they were sustained with the barest of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Support, Consolidated Schools, Democratic Values
Manning, Diane – 1990
This book presents the oral histories of one male and seven female retired teachers who began their careers during the 1920s and 1930s in one-room schools in the Texas hill country. These teachers continued to teach until after the desegregation of public schools in the 1960s. The married black couple included began teaching in rural Texas in 1931…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary School Teachers
Cochrane, Jean – 1981
A unique collection of photographs and personal letters, journals and diaries, newspaper clippings, official reports, readers and textbooks, mail-order catalogues, architectural plans and diagrams recreate the flavor of the Canadian one-room school and the rural communities it served from the 1840's to 1960's. The emphasis is on the human…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Link, William A. – 1986
This book aims to understand Virginia's rural past through a study of its schools. Rural Virginia schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were affected by at least three distinctly southern influences: the legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, regional underdevelopment and poverty, and the dilemma of racial coexistence in the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Centralization, Community Control, Compulsory Education
Apps, Jerry – 1996
This book documents the history of one-room schools in Wisconsin and presents the author's experiences in a one-room school during the 1940s, as well as the experiences of former teachers and students throughout the state. The first chapter reminisces about the 8 years that the author spent in a one-room school near West Rose, Wisconsin, recalling…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Experience, Educational History, Educational Practices
Weiler, Kathleen – 1998
This book focuses on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties between 1850 and 1950. It explores the social context of teaching and what teaching meant and provided to women teachers. Chapter 1 explores the shifts between 1840 and 1930 in representations of the woman teacher in the United States. Chapter 2 discusses…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Discrimination
Leight, Robert L.; Rinehart, Alice Duffy – 1999
This book draws on interviews with 47 former participants in one- and two-room schools, primarily in the northern part of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Chapter 1 presents a history of the one-room, one-teacher rural school, discussing the school consolidation trend, pupil transportation, and the three factors most instrumental in the one-room…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Cross Age Teaching, Educational History, Educational Practices
Slacks, John R. – 1938
This textbook was written in 1938 to acquaint beginning teachers with practices related to teaching in one-room schools and with the values and expectations of rural communities. The book points out the differences between the work of rural teachers and that of teachers in a town school. For example, teachers in one-room schools are required to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational History, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Lowth, Frank James – 1936
Written in 1936, this book overviews the guiding objectives, essential principles of school practices, and general teaching procedures of rural education. The book served not only as a reference concerning the many problems of rural teaching, but also was used as a textbook for preparing rural school teachers. Part 1 overviews problems of rural…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Facilities, Educational History, Educational Objectives
Clegg, Luther Bryan, Ed. – 1997
This book relates the experiences of students and teachers who spent their days in one- and two-room schoolhouses in West Texas during the first half of the 20th century. The book is based on interviews with 77 people and is divided into two sections: student recollections and teachers' memories. Former students reflect on school facilities, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life
Christenson, Howard B. – 1986
This book describes the experiences of 26 retired rural school teachers from western Wisconsin. The book was inspired by the community solidarity of the Cloverdale Community Club (Wisconsin) in maintaining the old Cloverdale School building. Cloverdale School was a typical one-room rural school, built in 1857 and closed by the consolidation…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education