Mary Jo Fairhead felt that something was missing at the South Dakota public schools where she taught for over a decade, so she quit and started one in her home. The main challenge she's working to ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series on one-room schoolhouses: their history and their present status in rural communities. If you have a story about attending a one-room ...

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At the Learning Lab in Union Station, more than a dozen students showcased their inventions as part of the Wichita school district’s new Creative Minds project, a one-room classroom of kindergarten ...

The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the microschool movement across the country, as families sought alternatives during shutdowns and remote schooling. The trend has continued post-pandemic, as part of a ...

PRUDENCE ISLAND – The tiny one-room schoolhouse that island residents fought to keep open doesn't have any students this year, but that doesn't mean it's closed for good. Jess Friswell, who sits on ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (WKRN) — In Williamson County, a historic one-room schoolhouse continues to influence young learners generations after it was built. Boiling Springs Academy opened in 1833 as a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The urban bustle outside doesn’t exactly align with Little House on the Prairie. But in the heart of Minneapolis there exists a throwback. “Good Morning, everybody,” Kaiti Brown says as ...

HUNTINGTON — The Union School, often called the “Punkin Center School,” was a one-room schoolhouse on Guyan Creek Road near Glenwood, serving students in grades one through eight from 1899 to 1955. In ...

Olivia Sumner, a teacher at Creative Minds Academy, started last fall with about 15 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. This fall, the popular microschool operated by the Wichita school ...

Prudence Island has the only operational one-room schoolhouse in Rhode Island, but no students are enrolled this year. A single senior graduated from the Prudence Island School last year, and the ...