Multi-Age Grouping: The One Room School Revisited?.

Shaeffer, Margaret B.; Hook, James G.

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ERIC Number: EJ533119

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Multi-Age Grouping: The One Room School Revisited?

Shaeffer, Margaret B.; Hook, James G.

Rural Educator, v18 n1 p10-12 Fall 1996

Addresses the benefits of multiage grouping of primary students in small, rural schools. Reports on a survey indicating that 20 of 49 school districts in a rural state employed multiage grouping. Stresses the importance of considering child development when implementing multiage grouping, and concludes that multiage grouping may be the future of primary schools, regardless of community size. (LP)

Descriptors: Child Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Mixed Age Grouping, Multigraded Classes, Primary Education, Rural Schools, School Surveys, Small Schools, Student Development, Teacher Attitudes

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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