Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier

Duration: 25

Year Published: 1986

Creator: Randall Teeuwen

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Examines the role of the one-room schools in rural America and explains their importance to the whole community. Looks at rural schools today and the problems they face--high energy costs, recruitment and retention of teachers, and the expense of maintaining a school with less than a dozen students. Illustrates the atmosphere and importance of the one-room school through old still photographs, reenactments, footage of classes in modern one-room schools, and interviews with former and current teachers.