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Transition to problems of internal organization. Economy a first

motive for grouping. Social influence an important motive. Grouping

in the one-room school. Courses of instruction in relation to the

problem of grouping. New problems of grouping in large schools.

Fundamentally different views on the curriculum. The ungraded class in

graded schools. Cases where failures show the urgency of the grading

problem. Efforts to adjust instruction to pupils. Readjustments of the

curriculum. Problems of grouping in high school. Illegitimate reasons

for promoting pupils. Experiments and studies which aim to supply

both individual instruction and class instruction. Arrangement of the

materials of instruction. Exercises and readings.

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