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Peer reviewedLeight, Robert L.; Rinehart, Alice D. – Educational Forum, 1992
This history of the one-room school examines reasons for its demise (perceived inferior status, efficiency, modernization) and presents advantages of multiaged grouping in schools. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Mixed Age Grouping, One Teacher Schools
Leight, Robert L.; Rinehart, Alice Duffy – 1999
This book draws on interviews with 47 former participants in one- and two-room schools, primarily in the northern part of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Chapter 1 presents a history of the one-room, one-teacher rural school, discussing the school consolidation trend, pupil transportation, and the three factors most instrumental in the one-room…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Cross Age Teaching, Educational History, Educational Practices
