Mary Jo Fairhead felt that something was missing at the South Dakota public schools where she taught for over a decade, so she quit and started one in her home. The main challenge she's working to ...

Third-grade students in Jackson Local Schools visited a one-room schoolhouse to experience history firsthand. Students participated in lessons using slates, learned about the history of their township ...

Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The urban bustle outside doesn’t exactly align with Little House on the Prairie. But in the heart of Minneapolis there exists a throwback. “Good Morning, everybody,” Kaiti Brown says as ...

In Evergreen, Colorado, the old one-room school that has sat on the grounds of Wilmot Elementary for decades has now moved on down the road to Marshdale. The school, built in 1877, is believed to be ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series on one-room schoolhouses: their history and their present status in rural communities. If you have a story about attending a one-room ...

Even if your grandpa didn't walk uphill to school both ways, or have to break the ice on the bucket before fetching a drink with the dipper, you probably have iconic images in your mind of the ...

We’ve taken our kids on lots of trips. But the one place they ask for, again and again, is the schoolhouse. I’m not sure if we found it, or if it found us. All I know is that a one-room schoolhouse in ...

JACKSON TWP. ‒ The schoolroom was silent except for the sound of chalk on the slate boards as students worked a math problem. "(The sound) is almost soothing," Susan Gardner said as she observed from ...

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