Download or read book The Era of the One Room Rural School in Cedar County Missouri written by Jean Nipps Swaim and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Era of the One room Rural Schools of Cedar County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Era of the One room Schools of Cedar County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Second Home written by Sue Thomas and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. A Second Home offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the Ramsay settlement near Cape Girardeau, then of the opening of a handful of schools around the time of the Louisiana Purchase—such as Benjamin Johnson’s school on Sandy Creek, Christopher Schewe’s school for boys when St. Louis was still a village, and the Ste. Genevieve Academy, where poor and Indian children were taught free of charge. She describes how, as communities grew, additional private schools opened—including “dame schools,” denominational schools, and subscription schools—until public education came into its own in the 1850s. Drawing on oral histories collected throughout the state, as well as private diaries and archival research, the book is full of firsthand accounts of what education once was like—including descriptions of the furnishings, teaching methods, and school-day activities in one-room log schools. It also includes the experiences of former slaves and free blacks following the Civil War when they were newly entitled to public education, with discussions of the contributions of John Berry Meachum, James Milton Turner, and other African American leaders. With its remembrances of simpler times, A Second Home tells of community gatherings in country schools and events such as taffy pulls and spelling bees, and offers tales of stern teachers, student pranks, and schoolyard games. Accompanying illustrations illuminate family and school life in the colonial, territorial, early statehood, and post-Civil War periods. For readers who recall older family members’ accounts or who are simply fascinated by the past, this is a book that will conjure images of a bygone time while opening a new window on Missouri history.
Download or read book A History of the Rural Schools in Greene County Mo written by David Burton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Missourians who were educated in one-room county schools tend to have fond memories of that earlier era and forget the stark conditions that often prevailed in rural schools. Despite their limitations and lack of amenities, rural schools fulfilled their mission. They brought education within walking (or riding) distance of nearly every Missourian. This was certainly the case in Greene County, Mo., which had 124 one-room schools operating in 1905. The earliest Missouri schools may have provided only the barest rudiments of education but they were also the social center for fledgling communities. The schoolhouse was a gathering place for everything from pie suppers and church meetings to holiday and political events. Such gatherings were a vital source of communication in rural communities, and they helped knit together the scattered population. Today, the one-room schoolhouse with its smoky stove, water bucket and outhouse is a fading memory. The emergence of a statewide road system made it possible for schools to consolidate and transport pupils to larger, more centralized schools. Whatever its shortcomings may have been, the one-room school served a vital function in the evolution of Missouri's public education system and in the overall social and economic development of the state. This book profiles the one-room schools that stood in Greene County, Mo. It also documents those that are still standing and provides both historic fact and the stories of former students and teachers at those one-room schools. This book is a "must-have" for any historian from the Ozarks that is interested in local history.
Download or read book One room Schools of the Middle West written by Wayne Edison Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buck Creek School written by Larry A. Whiteside and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one room school house was a historical and intricate part of the developing educational system of America. Read the history of one such one room school, Buck Creek. The old school building still stands today on Lake Road 0 and functions as a small independent country store serving the Buck Creek community. This building today stands as a symbol of the pride the people of one Missouri Ozark community had in their one room rural county school.
Download or read book Buck Creek School written by Larry A. Whiteside and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one room school house was a historical and intricate part of the developing educational system of America. Read the history of one such one room school, Buck Creek. The old school building still stands today on Lake Road 0 and functions as a small independent country store serving the Buck Creek community. This building today stands as a symbol of the pride the people of one Missouri Ozark community had in their one room rural county school.
Download or read book Rural School Days written by Gail Kiley Bush and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Schools of Cass County Missouri written by Cass County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed descriptions of the one room school houses and rural schools in Cass County.
Download or read book Books In Print 2004 2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of One Room Country Schools written by Rena Overcash Smith and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Missouri State Teachers Association written by Missouri State Teachers Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One room Schools of Scott County Mo written by Scott County Missouri Historical & Genealogy Society and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
