Amish education designed to sustain simple life. Amish children grow up with aspirations unlike those of a typical American child. Rather than dream of becoming astronauts, ...

Dewalt, who has studied one-room schoolhouses and Amish education in the United States and Canada for 20 years, has just finished a book on Amish education. For his research, he spent time in the ...

Tourists curious about the Amish flock to their communities to see them and the Amish may not like the attention, but they ...

Amish Education. Why don't the Amish go to school past the eighth grade? Description. Amish communities are exempt from federal laws requiring children to attend school until they reach a certain age.

GORTNER — In a tiny schoolhouse in a Garrett County meadow, the past, present and future converge.Amish and Mennonite children have attended Swan Meadow, a public elementary and middle school ...

Amish students sit and listen during Westveiw''s eighth grade graduation ceremony Wednesday. The annual eighth-grade graduation took place Wednesday at Westview School Corp., and about half the ...