She graduated from school at age 12 and became a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse.
Hominy Ridge was nothing but an out-of-date, unimproved, one-room country schoolhouse in the backwoodsiest corner of Indiana.
If only it was as easy as Schoolhouse Rock made it seem, a bill becoming a law.
The days of delivering computers and networking equipment to the schoolhouse are over.
He sleeps at RAM headquarters, a ramshackle schoolhouse in rural Tennessee, and he takes no income for his work.
There in a one-room schoolhouse he had learned his lessons, in the days before the destruction of the public-school system.
When we expand equality, we open the schoolhouse door for young girls.
" McDermott banged a schoolhouse Everett spinet piano (with a recently revived low A key) into submission in another Morton classic, "Grandpa's Spells.
Would-be vendors are already pounding on schoolhouse doors offering all sorts of new equipment and wiring schemes that will allegedly qualify for federal funding.
Losh left little of herself beyond the stone, wood and glass of her astonishing church and a few other local structures a mausoleum, a cross, the schoolhouse, some cottages.
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But venture five miles south of Bodega Bay on Hwy 1 to the tiny town of Bodega and you will find two Birds icons: the schoolhouse and the church along Bodega Lane.
Across the street from the Vereins Kirche, The Pioneer Museum showcases 10 other preserved buildings from the immigrant era, including a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse and a bathhouse.
There is also a strong sentimental feeling here for the one-room schoolhouse, where a single teacher handled a range of abilities, and more advanced students often taught those behind them.
Lean, quick, and devastatingly adroit at the age of fifty-five, the teacher Georges Lopez presides over a one-room schoolhouse in this marvellous documentary shot in the Auvergne region of France.
Sadly, an 8-year-old boy was among three killed and more than 170 wounded in Monday's blasts in Boston, and a group ran in memory of the Sandy Hook schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut.
Add to that the massive bulge of youth under the age of 20 in India, and you see how this place is going to inspire a schoolhouse near you to teach Hindi.
For if the stand in the schoolhouse door was a defining moment for George Wallace, then surely the aftermath of Katrina and the invasion of Iraq will be the same for George W. Bush.
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Nicknamed the Little Red Schoolhouse and perched on dry land in the French Quarter, comfortably above sea level, the school now brims with energy, ambition and rising test scores among its 420 students, more than 90% of them from low-income African-American families.
Columbine, Virginia Tech, a movie theatre in Colorado, an army base in Texas, a coffee bar in Seattle, an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, a college in California, a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, a strip mall in Arizona and the list goes on.
"I know that nine little children did not walk through a schoolhouse door in Little Rock so that we could stand by and let our children drop out of school and turn to gangs for the support they are not getting elsewhere, " he said accusingly.
One result is a society where women make up just 12% of the workforce and own 5% of businesses, a country where 15 young girls were doomed to perish in a 2002 schoolhouse fire after the morality police prevented their rescue because the students were improperly dressed.
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Every child, every opportunity, every time, because you believe, like I do, that every young person, every child -- regardless of what they look like, where they come from, how much money their parents have -- every child who walks through your schoolhouse doors deserves a quality education.
The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.
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He began teaching, long before he had a degree, over in a one-room schoolhouse amid the hollows of Overton County in a place known informally as Booze, and soon became principal in a community closer to Carthage called Pleasant Shade, living where he could, sometimes in the homes of his students, who took to calling him Professor.
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