This work is the result of the author's year attending a one-room school. It describes the conflict between the rural and the urban, the newcomers and the old-timers, the Sunbelt and the Old West. A bibliography and an index are included. This copy is clean and solid.

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Title: BATTLE ROCK. The Struggle Over a One-Room School in America's Vanishing West
Publisher: Public Affairs Press, New York, NY
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1891620665
ISBN 13: 9781891620669
Binding: Cloth
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Celis (U. of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication), a former New York Times education correspondent, writes a thoughtful account of home and school life in a rural community in Colorado, particularly focusing on the goings-on in its one-room schoolhouse, based on his experiences there from 1999 to 2000. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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William Celis is an assistant professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication.

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