Author: Luther Bryan Clegg
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442645
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Annotation One- and two-room schools represent a paradoxical time in Texas history when school played second fiddle to family duties but still served as the focus of community life. Luther Bryan Clegg's The Empty Schoolhouse provides a direct link to the past through interviews with students who attended these schools and teachers who taught in this area between Fort Worth and Odessa and the Hill Country and Amarillo. Former students share stories describing Friday afternoon "literary societies, " dead snakes in desk drawers, pranks, fires, travel to and from school, and discipline. Drawing on historical and sociological data as well as interviews, Clegg presents intriguing accounts of rural life, preserving the uniqueness of the "olden days."
The Empty Schoolhouse
Author: Luther Bryan Clegg
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442645
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Annotation One- and two-room schools represent a paradoxical time in Texas history when school played second fiddle to family duties but still served as the focus of community life. Luther Bryan Clegg's The Empty Schoolhouse provides a direct link to the past through interviews with students who attended these schools and teachers who taught in this area between Fort Worth and Odessa and the Hill Country and Amarillo. Former students share stories describing Friday afternoon "literary societies, " dead snakes in desk drawers, pranks, fires, travel to and from school, and discipline. Drawing on historical and sociological data as well as interviews, Clegg presents intriguing accounts of rural life, preserving the uniqueness of the "olden days."
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442645
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Annotation One- and two-room schools represent a paradoxical time in Texas history when school played second fiddle to family duties but still served as the focus of community life. Luther Bryan Clegg's The Empty Schoolhouse provides a direct link to the past through interviews with students who attended these schools and teachers who taught in this area between Fort Worth and Odessa and the Hill Country and Amarillo. Former students share stories describing Friday afternoon "literary societies, " dead snakes in desk drawers, pranks, fires, travel to and from school, and discipline. Drawing on historical and sociological data as well as interviews, Clegg presents intriguing accounts of rural life, preserving the uniqueness of the "olden days."
The Empty Schoolhouse
Author: Natalie Savage Carlson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
When the parochial school in French Grove, Louisiana is desegregated, 10-year-old Lullah Royall joined her red-haired friend Oralee at school, but one by one all the students desert St. Joseph's, frightened by phone calls and threats.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
When the parochial school in French Grove, Louisiana is desegregated, 10-year-old Lullah Royall joined her red-haired friend Oralee at school, but one by one all the students desert St. Joseph's, frightened by phone calls and threats.
Schoolhouse
Author: Lee Duigon
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9781558171374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Fifth-grader Ned Bradley knew the secret behind the strange accidents that had begun to occur at Victory School. And he knew the Board of Education's plan to close the old school was a very bad idea. Because now the evil that stalked Victory School would have only a few short months for its grisly revenge!
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9781558171374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Fifth-grader Ned Bradley knew the secret behind the strange accidents that had begun to occur at Victory School. And he knew the Board of Education's plan to close the old school was a very bad idea. Because now the evil that stalked Victory School would have only a few short months for its grisly revenge!
Schoolhouse in the Woods
Author: Rebecca Caudill
Publisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 9781883937805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.
Publisher: Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 9781883937805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.
The Schoolhouse
Author: Elizabeth Bromke
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781688634411
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Locals see an eyesore, but she sees a charming business opportunity... Becky Linden needs a fresh start. Her family is miles away. Her ex-husband is remarried. Her son is off to college. With an early mid-life crisis looming, Becky is at a crossroads: keep working dead-end jobs to survive, or take a leap of faith. During a visit home, she stumbles across the abandoned one-room schoolhouse where she played as a child and had her first kiss a teenager. With her family's encouragment, Becky decides to stay in town and find a way to save the historic building from demolition. As she works on her business plan, Becky begins to reconnect with her past. Her best friend, Maggie, is three kids deep into a dysfunctional marriage. The grandparents who raised Becky have aged exponentially, and her beloved grandfather is ill. Still, Becky finds herself enchanted by the small southern community where she was raised. What's more, her high school sweetheart, Ben Durbin, still lives in town, working for the school district and looking as handsome as ever. The stage is set for a sweet reunion for the former lovebirds, until Zack reveals crushing news: he's in charge of tearing down the historic building. Just before giving up, Becky uncovers a local secret: something that might compel Zack to save the past and give Becky a second chance. With flashbacks to her childhood play dates with Maggie and first kiss as a teenager, The Schoolhouse is a sweet, nostalgic, and romantic women's fiction. Head to Hickory Grove and see if Becky can bring the old schoolhouse back to life and help those she loves most overcome life's troubles. This is the first book in a standalone series about a southern small town and the people who live there.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781688634411
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Locals see an eyesore, but she sees a charming business opportunity... Becky Linden needs a fresh start. Her family is miles away. Her ex-husband is remarried. Her son is off to college. With an early mid-life crisis looming, Becky is at a crossroads: keep working dead-end jobs to survive, or take a leap of faith. During a visit home, she stumbles across the abandoned one-room schoolhouse where she played as a child and had her first kiss a teenager. With her family's encouragment, Becky decides to stay in town and find a way to save the historic building from demolition. As she works on her business plan, Becky begins to reconnect with her past. Her best friend, Maggie, is three kids deep into a dysfunctional marriage. The grandparents who raised Becky have aged exponentially, and her beloved grandfather is ill. Still, Becky finds herself enchanted by the small southern community where she was raised. What's more, her high school sweetheart, Ben Durbin, still lives in town, working for the school district and looking as handsome as ever. The stage is set for a sweet reunion for the former lovebirds, until Zack reveals crushing news: he's in charge of tearing down the historic building. Just before giving up, Becky uncovers a local secret: something that might compel Zack to save the past and give Becky a second chance. With flashbacks to her childhood play dates with Maggie and first kiss as a teenager, The Schoolhouse is a sweet, nostalgic, and romantic women's fiction. Head to Hickory Grove and see if Becky can bring the old schoolhouse back to life and help those she loves most overcome life's troubles. This is the first book in a standalone series about a southern small town and the people who live there.
Schoolhouse
Author: Marc Nieson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888160925
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagine Walden recast as a love story. This intimate memoir opens with its Brooklyn-born narrator standing on his head outside an old one-room schoolhouse amid 500 acres of remote woodlands in Iowa¿on the lam from a love affair gone sour and a myopic past. Structured like a schoolbook, each chapter is named after a school subject (i.e. Geography, Civics, Anatomy, What I Did On My Summer Vacation), which collectively forms an overall lesson plan for the author¿s personal reeducation. Turns out the Midwestern Heartland won¿t allow him to hide out forever. SCHOOLHOUSE is a modern day search for where identity, place, and heart all intersect. A Waldenesque study in both nature and human nature.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888160925
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagine Walden recast as a love story. This intimate memoir opens with its Brooklyn-born narrator standing on his head outside an old one-room schoolhouse amid 500 acres of remote woodlands in Iowa¿on the lam from a love affair gone sour and a myopic past. Structured like a schoolbook, each chapter is named after a school subject (i.e. Geography, Civics, Anatomy, What I Did On My Summer Vacation), which collectively forms an overall lesson plan for the author¿s personal reeducation. Turns out the Midwestern Heartland won¿t allow him to hide out forever. SCHOOLHOUSE is a modern day search for where identity, place, and heart all intersect. A Waldenesque study in both nature and human nature.
The One World Schoolhouse
Author: Salman Khan
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 145550839X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning. In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things: How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals/DIV How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning/DIV Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now. More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 145550839X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning. In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things: How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals/DIV How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning/DIV Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now. More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.
Schoolhouse Activists
Author: Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
Publisher: Suny Press
ISBN: 9781438458601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.
Publisher: Suny Press
ISBN: 9781438458601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.
The One-room Schoolhouse
Author: Jim Heynen
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Certainly no one knows country wisdom and speech and behavior better than Heynan, who, in over 100 perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, always surprising stories, reveals "the boys" in all their oddity, wonder, and puzzlement--farm kids contending with adults, city kids, birth, death, girls, and ponies. Line drawings throughout.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Certainly no one knows country wisdom and speech and behavior better than Heynan, who, in over 100 perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, always surprising stories, reveals "the boys" in all their oddity, wonder, and puzzlement--farm kids contending with adults, city kids, birth, death, girls, and ponies. Line drawings throughout.
The Life & Adventures of Marjorie Maynard â 5 Children's Books in One Volume
Author: Carolyn Wells
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027223245
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Marjorie Maynard is a 12 year old American girl, mischievous, fun and always ready to get into trouble. Through the series of novels we follow her and her numerous adventures with cousins and friends. Table of Contents: Marjorie's Vacation Marjorie's Busy Days Marjorie's New Friend Marjorie's Maytime Marjorie at Seacote Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. She is known for her Patty Fairfield series of novels for young girls.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027223245
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Marjorie Maynard is a 12 year old American girl, mischievous, fun and always ready to get into trouble. Through the series of novels we follow her and her numerous adventures with cousins and friends. Table of Contents: Marjorie's Vacation Marjorie's Busy Days Marjorie's New Friend Marjorie's Maytime Marjorie at Seacote Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. She is known for her Patty Fairfield series of novels for young girls.