REMEMBERING THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE

Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Henry Ford, and my favorite college professor Ed Burrows all had one thing in common. Each attended a one-room schoolhouse.And so did millions of other Americans.In 1918, more than 196,000 such schools dotted our nation’s landscape, the vast majority of them in rural areas and small towns. As late as 1959, close to 24,000 of the...