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 ...

North of Pierre, South Dakota, you will find Plainview school, a rustic one-room school house that brought accessible education to the Peoria township. Such schoolhouses helped shape rural students.

At the Learning Lab in Union Station, more than a dozen students showcased their inventions as part of the Wichita school district’s new Creative Minds project, a one-room classroom of kindergarten ...

KEARNEY, Neb. (KOLN) - The floorboards creaked as Nora Lindner stepped into a one-room schoolhouse at the Trails and Rails Museum in Kearney. The retired teacher remembers attending a country school ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gladys Mohler vividly remembers her first school. When she set off for class in the fall of 1932, the Excelsior School was just over the fence from her parents’ farm in Manor Township. Her dog would ...

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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 ...