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Dalton System

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noun

  1. a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.

Etymology

Origin of Dalton System

Named after Dalton, Massachusetts, where it was first used in the high schools

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Up to now Bolshevik schooling has favored the modernistic "Dalton System," each child being assigned a "problem" and "encouraged" to solve it.

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