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Iowa's One-Room Schoolhouses - Consolidation

Duration: 04:30

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

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.

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Post Date: February 18, 2009

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