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Is your public school too large and distant (both physically and socially) for you and your children, too impersonal (take a number, please), and too bureaucratic (with layers and layers of officials)? Though one-room and small schools are sometimes seen through rose-colored glasses, they made parents and students feel more welcomed, more interactive, more intimate with each other and the school's programs, and-even today where they still exist in the United States (the mid- and far-West)-more academically superior. Today, with electronic advancements available-computers, videos, distance libraries and learning for research-there is no reason to crowd students like a herd of cattle into schools and classrooms. Research has proven that a smaller economy of scale is not more expensive. Some have recently started talking about scaling down the size of schools (not those, of course, with a vested interest in the large school "plant"), but it has been mostly talk. When will the real community school return? This volume has three focuses: 1) The nostalgic remembrances of an early Maryland one-room school by those who attended and taught there (with interesting data and old-timey pictures), 2) a brief, succinct, and eye-opening history of small schools in America, and 3) easy-to-read research briefs that support returning to smaller, local-community schools today.
Born to formerly enslaved parents, Julius Neely wanted his children and rural community to have the education he lacked. With no schools open to them in 1908, he built one on his property that educated 1,300 students over forty years. Little School in the Woods tells the true and inspiring story of a father's love and determination--and of the restored one-room Neely School in China Grove that is teaching a new generation about the educational struggles of the early Jim Crow era in North Carolina.
Born to once-enslaved parents, Julius Neely wanted his children and rural community to have the education he lacked. With no schools open to them in 1908, he built one on his own property that educated 1,300 students over forty years. Little School in the Woods tells the true and inspiring story of a father's love and determination--and of the restored one-room Neely School in China Grove that is teaching a new generation about the educational struggles of the early Jim Crow era in North Carolina.
Farmer and minister Julius Neely wanted his children and rural community to get the formal education he never got. With no schools open to them in 1908, he built one on his own property that educated 1,300 students over forty years.