Word: ungradedness
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The Edmonds school district north of Seattle is a once rural area that in ten years of suburban spread has acquired almost 22,000 schoolchildren. With such pressure, its schools might well be awful. But so appealing is its remarkable Maple Park Elementary School that people living outside its area...
> Almost commonplace in prosperous suburbs this year are "ungraded" primary classes, which spur kids to hustle through each subject at their own pace. Newton, Mass, aims to use this idea at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
A Moral Flounderer. Gabe Wallach is the novel's hero and its most troublesome shortcoming. The son of a well-to-do New York dentist, Gabe is an intelligent, joyless, bored young man who is a scholar more by default than vocation. When the reader first sees him, he...
With a stronger emphasis on instruction to meet the requirements of the individual student, the education expert declared, the need to increase the flexibility and efficiency of educational resources becomes more evident. Anderson claimed that team teaching and ungraded classes would be valuable in attaining a greater efficiency in individualized...
Besides team teaching. Anderson has pioneered the ungraded school in which students are assigned to classes by ability, rather than age. At Lexington Anderson and his staff have already established this system.