Sentences with phrase «room schoolhouses into»

Using scientific management techniques, they transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the bureaucratic «one best system» of city administration that still persists today.

Progressive Era reforms transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the «one best system,» shifting power from the teacher and the school to the superintendent who ran the district.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

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On October 2, 2006, Charlie Roberts - then Monville's husband - burst into a one - room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, with a handgun, a 12 - gauge shotgun, a rifle, cans of black powder, a stun gun, two knives, a toolbox and restraint devices.

Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act outside the former one - room schoolhouse in rural Texas he'd once attended.

But as transportation improved and demand for a high - school education increased, the one - room schoolhouse organized into «recitation groups» no longer sufficed.

Some states, like New Hampshire, are putting into place some new standards that get rid of the old age - grade / time - based lockstep approach of the Carnegie unit for credit in high schools and pave the way for this one - room schoolhouse «philosophy.»

Book a room at the new Cabeça da Cabra property: a former schoolhouse transformed into a charming B&B.

Highlights include a circa - 1800 barn that was adaptively repurposed into a charming residence, the Eliphalet Sturges / George Hand Wright house, which was originally built in 1764 as a simple two - room farm house and extensively remodeled in the colonial revival style by the dean of Westport artists, George Hand Wright, in 1910; «Duck Haven,» a house and cottage on the Saugatuck River adjacent to the historic low - tide crossing point; the David Judah House, circa 1760, which has gone through a meticulous restoration by its owner, who preserved every nail, piece of timber and window; a circa 1840 Italianate house whose owners uncovered an original back staircase hidden by 20th century renovations; Westport's first one - room schoolhouse west of the Saugatuck River, which includes a large collection of signed prints by abstract artist Frank Stella; a reproduction saltbox circa 1966 designed and built by well - known architect George White, which won a Historic Preservation Award this year.