Named schooling models that depart from age-graded classrooms and set curricula, including the Sudbury model, unschooling, the open classroom, the Dalton Plan and multigrade education. A model belongs here when the cited article defines it through student-directed learning, open space or the absence of fixed grade levels. It excludes child-centered method schools and traditional teaching systems, which sit in their own groups.
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Unschooling - Wikipedia
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Unschooling is a practice of self-driven informal learning characterized by a lesson-free and curriculum-free implementation of homeschooling.
Open classroom - Wikipedia
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An open classroom is a student-centered learning space design format which first became popular in North America in the late 1960s and 1970s, with a re-emergence in the early 21st century.
Dalton Plan (Wikipedia)
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The Dalton Plan is an educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst.
Sudbury school, Wikipedia
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A Sudbury school is a type of school, usually for the K-12 age range, where students have complete responsibility for their own education, and the school is run by a direct democracy in which students and staff are equal citizens.
Ungraded school, Wikipedia
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An ungraded school is a school that does not formally organize students according to age-based grade levels.
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