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Multi Age Classroom History

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The concept of multi age classrooms is not a new idea or a huge switch in today’s educational system. The history of the multiage classroom goes all the way back to the beginning of traditional educational systems. Two hundred years ago, “families were larger, and infant mortality and a high fertility rate resulted in a wide variance in sibling age. Schools and classrooms contained considerable age diversity” (Pratt, 1986, p. 112). Schools during this time were forced to educate many different ages and ability levels at once. In fact, the “one room school represents the beginning of education in our country in the 1600s” (Daniel & Terry, 1995, p. 5). “The death-knell of the one room school was sounded when Horace Mann decided to end them” (On
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Approximately 1088 CE the first ever university was invented by Medieval man, the University of Bologna. Many years after the University of Bologna was founded, ten more universities were established. A new form of education was brought in which ended up taking over, “universities introduced a new system of education, eventually replacing the monastery and church schools.” (Document F). The quote represents and shows that education started to become more proposed to society, but it was not deemed a necessity to everyone.

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Traditions have been around for years, some being passed down from generation to generation while others are fairly new. Traditions explain why people act certain ways or why certain events happen. From academics, to cultures, to life, people follow their traditions because that is what they have always learned to do, reluctant to change the ways they have always lived. Many are scared of change, especially in traditions that have been around for so long, but changing traditional ways is inevitable because life is always changing. In “Project Classroom Makeover,” the author Cathy Davidson strongly supports changing the traditional education system because it is not keeping up with how modern students learn, with all these advances in technology

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School was very strict in the English colonies. Since ink and paper was way too expensive, they used a “hornbook”. The Puritans found the university of Harvard which is the first ever college in the English. 6. For the cabins, they would stack up each log until it was stabilized.

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Massachusetts reformer Horace Mann led the charge for the country's first statewide public school. Mann wrote that education “is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” He also said that universal education would allow the United States to maintain a democracy of all Americans, he thought, “must, if citizens of a Republic, understand something of the true nature and functions of the government under which they live.” The public school system became a reality and they were free too. Most young citizens can now go to school poverty free.

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America’s educational institutions continue to evolve in order to provide “the one best system” that will benefit students in their present and future educational endeavors. The One Best System written by David B. Tyack, interprets the challenges and criticisms of America’s beginning formal education institutions as well as discusses how the solutions were used to perpetuate existing power structures and social classes to shape education entirely. As the idea of educating America’s children began to spread, schools were viewed as a community due to the tightly knit groups that were formed among individuals. Community members believed that educational institutions were an opportunity for social amusement as they provided social contact with

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One problem still stood and that was that many children did not have any access to education. A Massachusetts lawyer by the name of Horace Mann, led movements to try to create new common schools for all children. Mann believed that available public education for children of every social class would revive social equality and give them an equal chance to excel in social mobility. These schools would also keep society in order by disciplining children and building their individual character and teaching them to obey authority. By 1860, with the help from generous labor unions, factory owners and middle-class reformers, every northern state had school systems for all children of every social

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Document E by William H. McGuffey conveys the ethics and morals taught by school which are later incorporated into their adult lives. “... my parents are very good to save some money in order that I may learn to read and write.” This reformation brought schooling to the poor rather than to solely the rich and elite. However, there was still a difference between public schooling and specialized schooling. Also, parents feared that education might corrupt their children or take them away from the farms they worked on at home.

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According to Lawrence Cremin, in “Horace Mann,” the public school system had been instituted in the mid 1600’s. However, during Mann’s own lifetime, the quality of the education system had severely degenerated. Additionally, one of Mann’s former colleagues in the Massachusetts legislature conducted a study and determined that about one third of the children in Massachusetts were attending school, Yourdictionary.com, in “Horace Mann Facts,” asserted. Also, the teachers were inadequately paid and were typically of poor quality (Yourdictionary.com). Due to the worsening education system, public reform movements began.

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It was called The Common School Period because education transformed from a completely private, costly thing to a luxury that was available to the common masses. With public education, social class separation was not as extreme as it had been in the past, but still continued to occur in some areas. The people in the lower classes originally gained minimal instruction, such as learning how to read and write, calculate, and receive religious instruction, while the upper classes were more entitled to pursuing a higher education in secondary schools and even continue their schooling at the university level. Though some social class separation still lingered, education was made mostly to fit common standards. In 1837, Horace Mann, one of the great education reformers, created grade levels, common standards to reach those said grade levels, and mandatory attendance.

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