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The results of certain traditional practices in the elementary school have been frustration and disappointment. The time-honored practice of classifying pupils as first graders, second graders, third graders, etc. according to their chronological age has created a rigid school organization and an inflexible curriculum supporting tmrealistic standards within which teachers labor diligently but hopelessly.
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