One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections from Wisconsin. This item is unavailable.One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections from Wisconsin

From 1791, when the first school was established in what is now Wisconsin, to the 1960s, when consolidation was finally complete, the one-room school’s history has been one of growth and change. In One-Room Country Schools, this history along with unique memories and shared recollections from the people who learned and taught in the one-room schools of Wisconsin tell the story of these institutions of learning.

Jerry Apps was born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm, a mile from the Chain O’Lake one-room country school where he attended eight years. Professor emeritus of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he devotes most of his time to writing about rural America, especially the upper Midwest. Apps has also written several education books including Teaching From the Heart, Mastering the Teaching of Adults, and Study Skills for Adults Returning to School. Among his many popular books about Wisconsin’s heritage, the most recent is his Ames County series, starting with The Travels of Increase Joseph.