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  Program: Iowa's One-Room Schoolhouses
  Broadcast Date: Feb. 28, 2009
  

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Rural life in the early days of one-room schools was local. This tells the story of the widening of our perceptions with the coming of better transportation. An unintended consequence of this modernism was the loss of local control of schools, and the beginning of consolidation.

• education
• farms
• history
• Iowa
• rural
• schools
• teachers
• transportation

Post Date: February 18, 2009