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Download full textSong, Ruiting; Spradlin, Terry E.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2009
For a great portion of the history of the American education system, multiage education was the norm in one-room schoolhouses throughout the nation. The current graded, curriculum-centered approach in the U.S. appeared during the mid-nineteenth century with the rapid economic development and massive immigration into the country. Concurrently, some…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Mixed Age Grouping, Teaching Methods, Accountability
Fox, Cheryl L. – 1998
In 1993, the Michigan legislature passed a bill that allowed school districts to adopt early elementary school program initiatives. These initiatives established nongraded, continuous progress programs for grades 1 through 4. An overview of how the state coordinator helped school districts implement this multiage, nongraded model is presented in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedNorthrop, David; Vonck, Beth – Science and Children, 1998
Describes a summer program project designed and conducted by a mixed-age group of elementary children. Students collected data to determine whether a local stream was polluted, and interpretations of the data varied. An informational video about the project and the creek was produced. (PVD)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Ecology, Elementary Education, Environmental Education
