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schoolhouse

[skool-hous] / ˈskulˌhaʊs /


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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.

From Salon Apr. 8, 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

Below is a picture of the little schoolhouse where the incident of Mary and her lamb is believed to have taken place.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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 millions of Americans gave voting a go anyway on Tuesday, dutifully turning up across the country to cast ballots at schoolhouses, libraries and V.F.W. posts.

From New York Times Nov. 8, 2022

Online learning played a major role, but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2022

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

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




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