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It's not the self-contained classroom that is the conceptual problem
As some of us keep saying, although no one seems to be listening,
the two main factors standing in the way of significant reform in
elementary education are:
(1) Age gradedness; and
(2) The self-contained classroom.
The elementary education establishment continues to fixate on the rural
schoolmarm model of the late 19th century. "Oh, you're a teacher? What
do you teach?" "I teach 4th grade."