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Web Extra: Extended Interview with Jon Zimmerman

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DATE : Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:29:23 +0000
Entered in Database : 2009-09-14 21:29:23
length : 15840689
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They’re a national icon, but little red schoolhouses were often cramped, cold and poorly managed. In this extended version of their interview, education historian Jon Zimmerman talks to host Brian Balogh about why Americans on both sides of the political spectrum romanticize 19th century one-room schoolhouses, and why this much-mythologized emblem represents America’s educational ambitions.

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