by Milo Dailey, Butte County Post
It’s not likely students will show up on horseback, or that the county superintendent will oversee dozens of teachers in small, white-painted buildings – but the one-room school may be set for a return. Belle Fourche school board members are looking at how today’s technology can offer classrooms the flexibility for independent study and to give teachers the opportunity to help students each learn up to the best of their ability. Technically an entire school could be in a single space, just as in the old days of farm and ranch youngsters studying first through eighth grade together in a small schoolhouse. It all comes with the modern update of the antique students’ slate of the 19th century – today’s iPad and its cousins.
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