Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. — Daniel Burnham’s ...

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities. Kids focused on learning basics like reading, ...

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 ...

As classes resume this month, a whiff of nostalgia can be conjured for the one-room schoolhouses that dotted the landscape back when Arkansas was mostly a rural state. At least a half-dozen of these ...