The Lawrence school district offices, 110 McDonald Drive. The Lawrence school board has approved a proposal to create multigrade elementary classrooms, meaning some students will be placed in ...

Two best friends haven’t backed down from trying to save their dream classroom and beloved school since learning about the proposal to merge Gilcrease Elementary with ECDC Bunche. After attending ...

Current Lawrence school district estimates call for about a third of the district’s elementary classrooms to be multigrade next school year, and one school has opted to convert all its elementary ...

As Parkway Elementary School incorporates using multi-grade classrooms, other schools have already tried and seen positive results, several administrators said. Both Jamie Aliveto, executive director ...

Aztec Elementary will change a 13-year-old tradition when it adopts a more traditional approach for some classrooms this fall. Since its inception, the school — located at 13636 N. 100th St. — has ...

HAZLET – Lillian Drive Elementary School is gearing up for a yearlong experiment. Next September one classroom in the Hazlet school will combine third- and fourth-graders in a plan that revitalizes an ...

Across the Chicago area, students from different grades increasingly mingle as they learn to spell, write and study history. While they do not share a grade, they share a teacher, a classroom and even ...

Multigrade classrooms are falling out of favor. Cathy Jackson liked the way the 8-year-olds sometimes modeled positive behavior for the 6-year-olds in her multiage classroom in Louisville, Kentucky.