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In the interviews with people who remember the one-room rural school, there are lovely nuggets of a retrieved reality: experiences of language learning... instances of cultural diversity...multi-age teaching...rapport with the teacher...the games people played...the songs sung...experiences mentoring relived....Something about the interviews with those who remember sheds light on dimensions of our past and provides new lenses through which we can see new developments ahead. -Maxine Greene Professor Emeritus Teachers College, Columbia University

In the interviews with people who remember the one-room rural school, there are lovely nuggets of a retrieved reality: experiences of language learning... instances of cultural diversity...multi-age teaching...rapport with the teacher...the games people played...the songs sung...experiences mentoring relived....Something about the interviews with those who remember sheds light on dimensions of our past and provides new lenses through which we can see new developments ahead. -Maxine Greene Professor Emeritus Teachers College, Columbia University The authors share memories of former teachers who take us back to a time when the fields and streams and swamps were a part of the learning environment. Where the names of wildflowers were important and where inkwells provided diversion for creative students. This book by Leight and Rinehart will entertain and inform; they have done a great job! -Alden J. Moe University Service Professor of Education ?[T]here are different lessons here that are not in other books.?-History of Education Quarterly YThere are different lessons here that are not in other books. -History of Education Quarterly [T]here are different lessons here that are not in other books. -History of Education Quarterly

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ROBERT L. LEIGHT is Professor Emeritus of Lehigh University, College of Education. ALICE DUFFY RINEHART is Professor Emerita of Lehigh University, College of Education.

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