(Montessori schools have gone from fringe to cutting edge!)

You could call it the return of the one-room schoolhouse: Students of different ages and grade levels sitting in a classroom together, led by a teacher or even two instructors. That vision from the past is being revived for a new era – but unlike in the past, it is driven not only by necessity, but creativity.

John Malloy, director of education at Ontario’s Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, has issued a challenge to all the high school principals in his area to rethink the traditional way kids learn. He envisions different grades in one classroom tackling problems such as... READ MORE...