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The Jones Institute for Educational Excellence announces the release of the Expanded 2000 Edition of One Room Country Schools of Kansas, written by Dr. Bill Samuelson, professor in the School Leadership/Middle & Secondary Teacher Education program at Emporia State University. The new edition features additional pictures, anecdotes, and chapters, based on response to readers suggestions and continued research.

When I finished the first book, I had a tremendous sense of relief and accomplishment, states Dr. Samuelson. However, as time passed I became increasingly aware that the book was somehow incomplete. With the additions, I have a much greater sense that the 2000 book is a finished item, and that the topics have been well covered.

The One Room Country Schools of Kansas is a book that tells the story of the people who created and nurtured the one room schools in communities throughout Kansas. These teachers, parents, and community members, with sometimes little or no formal training of their own, worked hard to provide the best possible education to their children. These students then in turn, went on to play significant roles in the economic, social, and political life of Kansas.

Dr. Samuelson has been a member of the faculty of The Teachers College at Emporia State University for over thirty-five years. As an educational historian, he was interested in the contribution of the one room prairie schools to America. As Educational Director of the Dobbs School, an authentic one room Kansas school museum on the ESU campus, he began to focus his interest and research on the country schools of Kansas. From the opening of the first one teacher schools in Eastern Kansas in the mid-1800s, to the last one teacher school in Dermot School District in Southwest Kansas which closed its doors in 1990, Dr. Samuelson has managed to capture the spirit of the Kansas pioneers in this book.

Copies of the books are available through the Jones Institute for Educational Excellence, The Teachers College, Emporia State University, Campus Box 4036, Emporia. Kansas, 66801, or by calling (620) 341-5372 or toll free (877) 378-5433.