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A school in which all elementary-grade students were once taught in a single room. Such schools were common in sparsely populated areas before the 20th century; many had a bell at the ridge of the roof for summoning students at the start of the school day.

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No references found			Byline: George Barnes PETERSHAM - The last one-room schoolhouse to operate in town is getting something of a makeover, although not as extreme as hoped before the slumping economy prompted the state to cut tourism money in October. One-room schools beg for repairs by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) The author recounts the stories of one-room schoolhouses and the duties of the new teachers: janitor, fire builder, cook, and water hauler--in addition to teaching. Making the grade; plucky schoolmarms of Kittitas Country by Reference & Research Book News Born November 11, 1917 on a farm in Hoffer, Saskatchewan, Abram Hoffer attended a one-room schoolhouse and studied on horseback, eventually graduating from the University of Saskatchewan (BSA, MSA), the University of Minnesota (PhD) and the University of Toronto (MD). In memoriam: holistic health pioneer Dr. Abram Hoffer by Straus, Howard / Gerson Healing Newsletter			one-level subroutine one-line adapter one-line diagram one-line fix one-liner wars One-man Command One-man Management one-off one-over-one one-parameter semigroup one-part adhesive one-part code one-particle exchange one-pass color one-pass operation one-piece set one-pipe heating one-pipe system one-plus-one address instruction one-point compactification one-point perspective one-pour system one-quadrant multiplier one-room cottage one-room plan one-room schoolhouse one-sample problem one-shot molding one-shot multivibrator one-shot operation one-sided one-sided abrupt junction one-sided acceptance sampling test one-sided connection one-sided limit One-Sided Surface one-sided test One-Size Stretch Knits One-Step one-step operation one-tail test one-tailed test one-time fuse one-time pad One-Time Password one-to-many correspondence one-to-one one-to-one assembler One-to-One Correspondence one-to-one mapping one-to-one translator			one-person One-Photon Emission Computed Tomography One-Photon Emission Computerized Tomography one-piece One-Piece Flow one-piece set one-pieces One-Pion Exchange Potential one-pipe heating one-pipe system one-plus-one address instruction One-point compactification one-point perspective One-Point-Cut One-Port FFM one-pour system one-quadrant multiplier one-quadrillionth one-quarter one-quintillionth One-Revert Rule one-room cottage one-room plan One-room school one-room schoolhouse one-sample problem one-seed one-seeded one-seventh One-share-one-vote rule One-sheet hyperboloid One-sheet hyperboloid One-sheeted hyperboloid One-sheeted hyperboloid one-shot one-shot one-shot One-Shot Decorrelating Detector one-shot molding one-shot multivibrator one-shot operation One-Shot Rising one-sided one-sided one-sided one-sided abrupt junction one-sided acceptance sampling test One-sided Chebyshev inequality One-sided Chebyshev inequality one-sided conception one-sided connection One-Sided Cross-Validation One-Sided Generalized Markov One-Sided Height-Balanced One-sided limit

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