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Poetter, Thomas S. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement with a graduate course and its instructor. The book represents the best of what can be found in teaching and learning, in general, and in the quest for meaningful ways to understand curricula in…
Descriptors: Democracy, Algebra, Graduate Study, Curriculum Design
Fischel, William A. – University of Chicago Press, 2009
A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing. The result is a "race to the top," as all school districts attempt to improve their performance in order to attract homebuyers. Given the importance of school districts to the daily…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Change, Social Capital
Harding, Thomas – 1993
This book compiles black and white photographs of 49 one-room (and occasionally two-room) schoolhouses in Arkansas. The book aims to share the vision of these special buildings that were so important in shaping the educational system, communities, and lives. An introduction describes the pinhole cameras that were used and how the different effects…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, One Teacher Schools
Campbell, John Martin – 1996
This book documents the history of the prairie schoolhouse through text and photographs. The prairie schoolhouse was a product of the Western Homestead Era, those years beginning late in the 19th century when the federally owned grass prairies east of the Rockies and the sagebrush country of the interior Northwest were opened to farming.…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Facilities Design, Educational History, Elementary Education
Stephens, Donna M. – 1990
This book describes the teaching experiences of Helen Hussman Morris, who taught in a one-room school in rural Oklahoma during the early 1930s. Her story calls attention to some of the educational issues that were present in the 1930s and that are still being addressed at the local, state, and national levels, including curriculum, facilities,…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Local History
Calam, John, Ed. – 1991
Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia (Canada) schools, shares in these recollections of his experiences in a province barely out of the stagecoach era. Traveling through vast northern territory, using unreliable transportation, and enduring climate extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, North American History
Polk, Stella Gipson – 1989
This book describes the teaching experiences of Stella Gipson Polk, who taught in one-room schools in rural Texas. She was 16 at the time she took her first teaching job in 1918. After high school graduation, she had intended to enter a 4-year college or university. However, World War I left numerous schools without teachers as many were called…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Williams, Cratis D.; Gifford, James M., Ed. – 1995
This book is a memoir of one-room school life in 1929. In his day, Cratis D. Williams (1911-85) was America's foremost scholar on the Appalachian experience. This book is the story of his first teaching assignment at age 18 in a one-room K-8 school on Caines Creek in Lawrence County, Kentucky. Williams details his classroom practices and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Gulliford, Andrew – 1991
At the turn of the century, over 200,000 one-room schools existed in the United States. These simple, vernacular buildings represented the nation's commitment to education and were also the center of community life. The country school continues to be a powerful cultural symbol. This book consists of three parts. The first section describes country…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Architecture, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Stuart, Jesse – 1977
This autobiography relates the early teaching experiences of Kentucky teacher and author Jesse Stuart (1906-1984). Barely 17 years old, he first taught in a one-room, isolated rural school in eastern Kentucky for $60 a month. His 35 barefoot students in the eight grades ranged in age from 5 to 20 years. The students' passion for learning…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Educational Experience, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Ove, Robert S.; Stockel, H. Henrietta – 1997
In 1948, a young and naive Robert Ove arrived at Whitetail, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, to teach at the Bureau of Indian Affairs day school. Living there were the Chiricahua Apaches--descendants of Geronimo and the survivors of nearly 30 years of incarceration by the U.S. government. With help from Indian historian H. Henrietta Stockel,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Elementary Education
Barber, Marshall A. – 1953
Written in 1953, this book presents the reminiscences of a renowned scientist about his early education in a one-room school at Prairie View, Kansas, during the 1870s and 1880s. The first chapter records early memories of the road to school, and describes the community of Anglo and German farmers served by Prairie View. Other chapters describe…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Educational Environment, Educational Experience, Educational History
Kaufman, Polly Welts – 1984
This book presents letters, a personal narrative, and a diary relating the experiences of nine women teachers who traveled from the East to teach on western frontiers before the Civil War. During 1846-56, the National Popular Education Board recruited 600 experienced teachers from New England and New York State; trained them in Hartford,…
Descriptors: Diaries, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Sitton, Thad; Rowold, Milam C. – 1987
This book explores the country schoolhouses of Texas' rural past. Sources include interviews with dozens of former country schoolteachers and students and first-person narratives collected from written works. Chapters cover the following topics: (1) history of public education and country schools in Texas; (2) distance travelled by teachers and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Consolidated Schools, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Tompkins, Susie Powers – 1992
This book describes the experience of a young and inexperienced teacher during 1926 in rural Marengo County, Alabama. Susie Powers Tompkins accepted her first teaching assignment to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College. However, for Tompkins the rewards of teaching went far beyond just earning money. She found…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational History, Elementary Education