Before the big yellow bus: remembering the one-room schools of Richland County, Illinois

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    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
    Subject Term:
    education, education effects, education programs, education systems, educators, history, rural communities, schools, teaching, rural community development, and rural lifestyle
    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.

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