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Author : Paul Rocheleau
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Rural schools
ISBN : UCSC:32106016463439
Offering a glimpse at the values that built this country, "The One-Room Schoolhouse" is a poignant, engaging, beautiful and heartwarming tribute to an enduring slice of Americana.
Author : Susan Apps-Bodilly
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780870206160
Have you ever wondered what it was like to attend a one-room school, to be in the same classroom as your older brother or younger sister, or to have your teacher live with your family for part of the school year? In One Room Schools, Susan Apps-Bodilly chronicles life in Wisconsin’s early country schools, detailing the experiences of the students, the role of the teacher, and examples of the curriculum, including the importance of Wisconsin School of the Air radio programs. She describes the duties children had at school besides their schoolwork, from cleaning the erasers and sweeping cobwebs out of the outhouse to carrying in wood for the stove. She also tells what led to the closing of the one room schools, which were more than just centers of learning: they also served as the gathering place for the community. Susan Apps-Bodilly drew from the research compiled by her father Jerry Apps for his book, One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections. Apps-Bodilly has geared her book toward young readers who will learn what students and their teacher did on cold mornings before the wood stove warmed them up. They also will find out how to play recess games like Fox and Geese and Anti-I-Over and will learn the locations of 10 former one room schools that can be toured. Apps-Bodilly also encourages readers to ask themselves what lessons can be learned from these early schools that have application for today’s schools? One Room Schools will transport young readers back in time and make their grandparents and others of that generation nostalgic—perhaps even prompting them to share memories of their school days.
Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393285970
“If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book Review Our K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged. This informed, compassionate, and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit. Understand why we have twelve grades, and why we match them to ages. Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage. Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them. Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to recognize them, and how those labels can help (or hinder) you. Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors, and coaches. Learn to teach important subjects yourself. Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing. Help your child develop a vision for the future. Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling, and, yes, sleeping!). Plan for college—or apprenticeships. Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870207532
A popular collection of memories and recollections from people who learned at and taught in one-room schools in Wisconsin, including former pupil Jerry Apps, the book’s author.
Author : Mary Keithan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472032181
Nostalgic reminders of a time now past, one-room schoolhouses are deeply embedded in our heritage. Decades after their original purpose and inhabitants have vanished, they dot the rural landscape in all conditions, from neglected and near collapse to handsomely renovated places repurposed into a new existence as living quarters. Today no matter their state they stand as miniature gems of nineteenth-century American history as well as charming examples of rural architecture---above all, things to be treasured and preserved. Mary Keithan's Michigan One-Room Schoolhouses is a beautifully illustrated chronicle that details nearly a hundred of the state's early schoolhouses. Together with information about each schoolhouse's architecture and history, including interviews with former students and teachers, Keithan's photographs bring these structures back to life and assure their place in history. Mary Keithan is a professional photographer living in Ray, Michigan. Her previous books include Michigan's Heritage Barns and A Time in Michigan: A Photographic Series. New York Times critic Vicki Goldberg selected Keithan's 1995 image "Desert Storm Barn" for the Light Impression Biennial.
Author : Sean Kheraj
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774824262
In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city’s most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees, and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces how the tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped transform the landscape of one of the world’s most famous urban parks. This beautifully illustrated book not only depicts the natural and cultural forces that shaped the park’s landscape, it also examines the roots of our complex relationship with nature.
Author : Charlotte Caldwell (Photographer)
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780985497101
The story of Montana's one-room schoolhouses, as recollected and recounted by those most intimately connected to those places, is the story of the American frontier and the high value placed on education by those who came to homestead, mine, or work the railroads. It is a story of the Western spirit and of a culture marked by tenacity and endurance. These stories told by students and teachers, many of whom are now in their eighties or nineties tell of adventures traveling to and from school, the school day, recess games, family life, daily chores, and above all, the sense of community, as defined by these iconic humble schoolhouses. Their voices share memories and perspectives about a way of life, gone for the most part, and breathe life into these visions of rural heritage. The preservation of one-room schoolhouses is important, as they are among Montana's first frontier structures. These treasures inform us about ourselves our history and our culture through the people who learned and taught in them. One hundred percent of the net proceeds of this book will be donated to the Preserve Montana Fund, a campaign of collaboration between the Montana Preservation Alliance, the Montana History Foundation, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This donation will serve to create a challenge grant, earmarked for Montana's endangered one-room schoolhouses.
Author : Salman Khan
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781455508396
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning. In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things: How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals/DIV How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning/DIV Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now. More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education, Rural
ISBN : 9780395905142
Presents a brief history of the one-room schools that existed in the United States from the 1700s to the 1950s.
Author : Michael P. Harker,Paul Theobald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131681376
Michael Harker’s goal is to record Iowa’s historically significant architecture before it disappears forever. From Coon Center School no. 5 in Albert City to Pleasant Valley School in Kalona, North River School in Winterset to Douglas Center School in Sioux Rapids, and Iowa’s first school to Grant Wood’s first school, he has achieved this goal on a grand scale in Harker’s One-Room Schoolhouses.
Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300156270
This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered--and just as often misremembered--this powerful national icon.
Author : Wayne Edison Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015032719646
The Midwest's one-room schools were, Fuller observes, the most democratic in the nation. Located in small, independent school districts, these schools virtually wiped out illiteracy, promoted democratic values, and opened up new vistas beyond the borders of their students' lives. Entire communities, Fuller shows, revolved around these schools. At various times they were used as churches, polling places, sites of political caucuses, and meeting halls for local organizations. But as America urbanized and the movement to consolidate took hold in rural counties, these little centers of learning were left at the margins of the educational system. Some were torn down, some left to weather away, some sold at auction, and still others transformed into museums. Despite its demise, Fuller argues, here was a school system that worked. His book offers a timely reminder of what schools can accomplish when communities work closely together to educate their children.
Author : Jim Heynen
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029941146
Certainly no one knows country wisdom and speech and behavior better than Heynan, who, in over 100 perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, always surprising stories, reveals "the boys" in all their oddity, wonder, and puzzlement--farm kids contending with adults, city kids, birth, death, girls, and ponies. Line drawings throughout.
Author : Michael S. Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985748788
The image of the hickory stick as basic to one room schoolhouse education has become a part of the popular culture. When people visualize the one room schoolhouse, the school-marm with a stick in her hand is often part of that image. When youngsters visit a restored one room schoolhouse, a common question is, “Did the teachers really beat kids with a stick?” The record suggests that, generally speaking, teachers in the nineteenth century were very harsh and could be quite violent. Yes, a stick was often used, but a number of other punishments were also employed, many that by today’s standards would be considered child abuse. Using a variety of firsthand reports from students (and some teachers) we explore the range of punishments used in nineteenth century schools and document how their use changed over the course of the years.
Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Rural schools
ISBN : 0870814222
As late as 1913, half of U.S. schoolchildren were enrolled in the country's 212,000 one-room schools--the heart of American education. Although only about 428 of these schools remain in use as of 1994, the country school continues to be a powerful cultural symbol. The first section of this book examines country schools' educational and cultural legacy. Chapters (1) provide an overview placing country schools in the larger social and historical framework of American education; (2) describe the country school curriculum, discipline, and teaching methods; (3) present anecdotes and memoirs describing teacher education, teaching conditions, and teachers' lives on the Western frontier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; (4) portray the role country schools played as rural community centers; (5) discuss the assimilation of immigrants and minorities in rural schools, focusing on Native Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics; and (6) look at public, private, and parochial country schools in operation today. The second section examines the great variety of design in country school architecture, including schoolhouse sites, architect designs, building forms, building materials and techniques, classroom furniture, and building standardization. The third section discusses the preservation and restoration of country schools; describes new uses as museums, centers for living history programs, and community centers; presents preservation case studies; and lists one-room schools, by state, that remain in public ownership. This book contains approximately 275 references, 400 photographs, numerous illustrations, and an index. (SV)
