Scherer, Ron E. (author) and Meckfessel, Yvonne Scherer (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2015
Published:
USA: Persimmon Grove Publishing, Claremont, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06237
Notes:
295 pages., Reports the history of 80-plus one-room schools in a southeastern Illinois county, including an examination of an education system that helped both slow and bright students. Identifies teachers at those rural schools and some of the "pupils who learned their lessons well." Traces the demographic shift from farm to city in Richland County.
