Rural education has reflected the circumstances, challenges, and context of places in America called "rural.”
https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2383/Rural-Education.html
The Greek Revival Architecture of the American One Room School as a Symbolic Reflection of our Democratic National Ideals.
The Rosenwald Schools: More than a century ago, in America’s rural South, a community-based movement ignited by two unexpected collaborators shaped the educational and economic future of an entire generation of African American families.
https://savingplaces.org/places/rosenwald-schools
Death by Civilization: Thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools created to deprive them of their culture.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AM012
Facing the Legacy of the Boarding Schools: Saving the Diné Knowledge
Cultural Identity and Schooling in Rural New Mexico
https://jrre.psu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-08/24-8.pdf
Country schools went through hard times in the 1930s.
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_21.html
Education in the Thirteen Colonies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies
Rural Women's Studies Association
https://www.ohio.edu/cas/history/institutes/rwsa
The Rural School Reference Collection is comprised of materials relating to the legacy of the rural schools in the United States with an emphasis on the Midwest.
https://museum.library.uni.edu/rural-school-reference-collection
New England’s one-room schoolhouses
Teaching and Learning in Montana’s One Room Schoolhouses
https://savingplaces.org/stories/small-wonders-montana-schoolhouses
https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/kristi-borge/
Some voices of rural schools and communities
Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience
ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism
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