This program provides a glimpse into what it was like to attend a one-room school at the turn of the century. From the moment the teacher rang the bell in the morning to the time the students were dismissed in the afternoon, children in one-room schools were occupied with the business of learning, playing, and growing. You'll not only see children learning the 3 R's, but their recess, lunch and all the other activities confronting students of the one-room school. (color, 16 minutes)

If you are interested in rural school history, Rural School Journeys: A Legacy of Learning is a must-have. This book is a hard-cover, 300 page, glossy book that includes the history of the over 160 rural schools in DeKalb County, Illinois, as well as approximately 300 photographs, and a listing of teachers by school, all of which is footnoted and indexed. It was researched, written and published by the DeKalb County Historical Genealogical Society, with an introduction by Lucy Townsend, curator of the Blackwell History of Education Museum.

A Meere Scholler is a collection of eighteen articles that were presented for the International History of Education Symposium at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois in 1994. Five hundred people from twenty countries, including social museum curators and historians of education attended the symposium. Educational historians from five universities reviewed the fifty manuscripts submitted for publication (out of a total of ninety papers presented) and selected the articles contained in this book. Like the presenters themselves, the subject matter of these articles cross not only national but even continental boundaries.

The essays are grouped around five themes. The first papers examine the usefulness of educational history. Promoting the utilization of school museums and libraries is the theme of the second set of papers. The third group of papers concerns the use of iconics in the study of educational history. The fourth and largest group of papers relates to the cross-cultural interchange of educational ideas and practices. The fifth and final group of papers focuses on research methodologies used in the writing of educational history.

A Meere Scholler is an important and valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of education. It is published by the Educational Studies Press of the College of Education at Northern Illinois University.

The Little Pretty Pocket-book,published by John Newbery in 1744, was one of the earliest children's picture books.The first American edition was issued in 1787 by the famous publisher, Isaiah Thomas, who founded the American Antiquarian Society (1812).This facsimile of the American edition is full of etchings, Christian moral lessons, the alphabet, numbers, letters from Jack the Giant-killer, and rhymes.