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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?{{B}}One-room
Schools{{/B}} ? ?One-room schools are part of the heritage of the
United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for
"the way things were." One-room schools are an endangered species, however. For
more than a hundred years, one-room schools have been systematically shut down
and their students sent away to centralized schools. As recently as 1930 there
were 149,000 one-room schools in the United States. By 1970 there were 1,800.
Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools, more than 350 are in
Nebraska. The rest are scattered through a few other states that have on their
road maps wide-open spaces between towns. ? ?Now that there are
hardly any left, educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something
yet to be learned from one-room schools, something that served the pioneers that
might serve as well today. Progressive educators have come up with
progressive-sounding names like "peer-group teaching" and "multi-age grouping"
for educational procedures that occur naturally in the one-room schools. In a
one-room school the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part
of the time teaching someone else. A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade
level in math and a third-grade level in English without the stigma associated
with being left back or the pressures of being skipped ahead. A youngster with a
learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from
the other pupils. In larger urban and suburban schools today, this is called
"mainstreaming." A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and
it becomes clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living
in Nebraska is that their children have to go to a one-room
school.
Why are one-room schools in danger of disappearing?
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?{{B}}One-room
Schools{{/B}} ? ?One-room schools are part of the heritage of the
United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for
"the way things were." One-room schools are an endangered species, however. For
more than a hundred years, one-room schools have been systematically shut down
and their students sent away to centralized schools. As recently as 1930 there
were 149,000 one-room schools in the United States. By 1970 there were 1,800.
Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools, more than 350 are in
Nebraska. The rest are scattered through a few other states that have on their
road maps wide-open spaces between towns. ? ?Now that there are
hardly any left, educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something
yet to be learned from one-room schools, something that served the pioneers that
might serve as well today. Progressive educators have come up with
progressive-sounding names like "peer-group teaching" and "multi-age grouping"
for educational procedures that occur naturally in the one-room schools. In a
one-room school the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part
of the time teaching someone else. A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade
level in math and a third-grade level in English without the stigma associated
with being left back or the pressures of being skipped ahead. A youngster with a
learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from
the other pupils. In larger urban and suburban schools today, this is called
"mainstreaming." A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and
it becomes clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living
in Nebraska is that their children have to go to a one-room
school.
Why are one-room schools in danger of disappearing?
A.Because they exist only in one state. B.Because children have to teach themselves. C.Because there is a trend toward centralization. D.Because there is no fourth-grade level in any of them.
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