Review of One-Room School: Teaching in 19305 Western Oklahoma

Authors

Colleen Ryan, University of Kansas

Date of this Version

1991

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The term "one-room school" often evokes images, myths, and misconceptions. This book captures the memories of one young woman teaching in rural Oklahoma in the 1930s who succeeded despite unique problems of isolation, distance, time, weather, limited resources, and inadequate training.