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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

 

One Room Schools Again

National Public Radio continues their look at one room schools.

One-Room Schools Holding on in Rural America

One-room schools still exist in America. They are a legacy of a less mobile, more rural time in American history. Mostly serving isolated communities, the remaining schools require one teacher to educate children of varying ages at the same time in a single classroom. In 1919 there were 190,000 one-room schools scattered all around the American countryside. Now there are fewer than 400 left. Most of the remaining one-room schools are concentrated in a few states in the western part of the United States. Montana has the most -- between 85 and 100. Nebraska is number two, with roughly 75 one-room schools.

Taken from NPR Topics: Education.

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