Nongraded+Primary+Education

Kentucky: Legislative mandate calls for development of nongraded programs for all public school students in kindergarten through grade three. British Columbia: Transition to universal nongraded primary education begins in 1991; mandate requires full implementation of nongraded education by the year 2000. Oregon: State House Bill 3565 includes provisions for review of nongraded primary models and feasibility study for statewide implementation of nongraded primary education. These and similar events reflect a keen contemporary interest in educational restructuring to improve student achievement. They also reflect a researchbased conviction on the part of child development specialists and others that traditional graded school structures are detrimental to the development of young children-and that nongraded arrangements are much more in keeping with the way these children grow and learn. []

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