Lessons Learned from Michigan’s One Room Schools

In today’s fast-paced world of the Internet, MP3 players and iPads, it’s hard to imagine that a little more than one hundred years ago, Michigan’s children spent the day inside a one-room schoolhouse learning their lessons in reading, writing and arithmetic. In the early 1990s, there were more than 7,000 one-room schools in operation in the state. (click here or on image to see edited/published version)