In the 1700s, John Adams taught in a one-room school near Boston; Abe Lincoln was educated at a one-room school; and Henry Ford loved his so much, he had it moved to a museum in Michigan.

The one-room schoolhouse was once a signature of the American education landscape with roughly 190,000 such schools in 1919. Today, roughly 400 remain.

Among public schools, where funding is a perennial issue and class size a perennial lament, the one-room schoolhouse is a dwindling species. NPR reported in 2005 that there were fewer than 400 left.

Michael Day, who has done extensive research into one-room schoolhouses, gave a presentation about them on June 11. The program, presented by the South Windsor Historical Society, was held at ...

The One-Room Schoolhouse That's A Model For The World : NPR Ed Escuela Nueva (New School) isn't really new. But it is being praised as a kind of cutting-edge model that can teach the skills needed ...

More one-room schoolhouses The Redstone Schoolhouse , 72 Wayside Inn Road, Sudbury. This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1798 in Sterling and is famous as the school referenced in Sara Josepha ...

My first experience with a one-room schoolhouse is from very early in life and somewhat unique. The first house I remember living in was a large, white, four-square home in Central Illinois in the ...

By the late 1970s, the one-room school had become the relic of a bygone era. Public school buses now picked up country kids so they would have the larger, town-school experience.

P RUDENCE ISLAND – The tiny one-room schoolhouse that island residents fought to keep open doesn't have any students this year, but that doesn't mean it's closed for good.

PRUDENCE ISLAND – The tiny one-room schoolhouse that island residents fought to keep open doesn't have any students this year, but that doesn't mean it's closed for good.