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America's country schools / Andrew Gulliford ; with a note from Barbara Bush.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks LC 5146.5 .G85 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gulliford, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural schools--United States--History.
- Rural schools.
- School buildings--United States--History.
- School buildings.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Other Title:
- Country schools
- Place of Publication:
- Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©1996.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive work that chronicles a distinctive era in American education. The first section provides an overview of the historical role of rural schools in the United States. It is followed by a section on architecture and concludes with several chapters on documenting preserving country schools.
- Contents:
- Note from Barbara Bush
- Portfolio: America's Country Schools
- Country School Legacy
- Country Schools in American Education
- Four Rs: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Recitation
- Teachers' Lives on the Western Frontier
- Country Schools as Community Centers
- Country Schools and the Assimilation Process
- Country Schools Today
- Portfolio: Country School Legacy
- Country School Architecture
- Little Red Schoolhouses
- and Others
- Portfolio: Country School Architecture
- Country School Preservation
- New Three Rs: Restoration, Rehabilitation, Reuse
- Case Studies. Country Schools by State.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870814222
- 9780870814228
- OCLC:
- 34151474
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