Download or read book Iowa History of the One Room School 1870 to 1950 Artifacts, Pictures and Books written by Sandra Kessler Host and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pays tribute to over a million immigrant farmers who settled Iowa and built 12,623 one room schools over a 30 year period between 1870 to 1900. Host crafts a research-based journey through artifacts, first-person accounts, and primary documents. The reader relives the emergence of Midwestern farm culture through the impact of immigration and the statewide one room school system that led Iowa to have the highest literacy rate and test scores for decades to follow. Many common stereotypes are challenged and new findings are revealed. Host has researched, collected, and photographed thousands of items donated to the Iowa Rural Schools Museum housed in the restored 1883 Willow Tree School to make a 106 page one-of-a-kind reference book on Iowa's one room schools. Host has been instrumental in creating a true-life timeline of a working classroom and student culture in one of the best historical examples of a late 1800's one-room school in Iowa.The book centers around 12 engaging collections of artifacts from teaching methods to fashions to children's chores. Each collection exposes new insight into the nature of Iowa's early farming communities and why Iowa's one-room school system, legislated in 1858 with the last public one room school closed in 1966, successfully provided an outstanding, free and accessible education for all rural children. It influenced educational achievement for generations. For more information see www.iowaruralschoolsmuseum.netFor information on other books by Host see www.iowahistoricschools.com