schoolhouse
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Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Kapisillit's red wooden schoolhouse has a bell, library and Soviet-era hunting rifle to fend off polar bears.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
The schoolhouse is a dull, matted red, as are other architectural elements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Right, he didn't stand in the schoolhouse door.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
It felt like if I didn’t say something, they were going to stand outside the schoolhouse all night.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
But some, like Second Chance, are brick-and-mortar schoolhouses with dozens of students.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
One of my parents is an IU alum, but more than that, we were all born in Indiana, flat land of cornfields and quarries, churches and schoolhouses, often the punchline of other states' jokes.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
But he spent increasing amounts of time in Navy schoolhouses, talking about leadership and the lessons of his experience and forging relationships with hundreds of officers and enlisted sailors.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2022
“It sounds so corny, but almost immediately, it was no more gothic churches, no more electronic music. It was guitars and it was schoolhouses and ‘Little House on the Prairie.’”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
