Today my mother would have reached her 99th birthday. A highly literate woman who wrote beautifully and was the valedictorian of her high school class, in her early years she attended school at a rural one-room schoolhouse in Union County, near Lorimor, Iowa. Mama likened her days there to those described by Lois Lenski in Prairie School. Among the things she praised about her education in the country schoolhouse was that instead of moving from grade to grade, children only moved on in a subject area once they mastered the topic they were studying.
Iowa Country School House. Photo credit: Joefreeman83, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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