Girls' Basketball Team, Early, Iowa, 1921

Pathways

• Before the Formal Education System
• One-Room Schools
• Early Teachers
• The Development of High Schools
• Getting to School
• The Galland School: An Iowa First
• Minnie London: Teaching in a Mining Town
• Iowa in the Civil War
• Kids at Work
• The First Woman Superintendent
• Working Women
• Education

Media Artifacts

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  Teaching in an Iowa One-room Schoolhouse
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  One-room Schoolhouse
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  McGuffey’s Readers
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  Consolidation Brings the End to Iowa's One-room Schoolhouses
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  Sod Roofed One Room Log School House
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  Interior of One-room School
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  One-room Schoolhouse Iowa Quarter
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  School and Outhouse, 1932
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  Scarce Supplies

Web Sites

• Learn about rural schools in Iowa.
• 1900 Iowa history textbook chapter describes early schools and teachers in the state
• A history of the Iowa State Teachers College, later known as the University of Northern Iowa, from 1926
• Personal accounts of a resident and school teacher in Buxton, a unique Iowa coal community in the late 1800s and early 1900s
• A former student provides first-hand accounts of experiences in an Iowa one-room school (1938)