A Study to Determine Relationships Between Elementary School Organizational Plans and Desirable Educational Characteristics of the Classroom

Abstract

Since the establishment of the graded concept for elementary

school organization, periodic attempts have been made to modify its

application.

These modifications have arisen in response to conditions

peculiar to a local situation. Such attempts have become frequent in

the recent past, probably as a result of increasing awareness of weak-

nesses in existing situations and of a generally encouraging atmosphere

regarding change. These attempts have resulted in a proliferation of

organizational plans for purposes of classroom instruction, each pur-

porting to provide the solutions to specific or general problems. The

claims and counter-claims are often as confusing as the multiplicity of

the plans themselves.