One Room Schoolhouses The One-Room Schoolhouse.  By JODI WILGOREN.  New York Times EDUCATION LIFE.  August 6, 2000. Quaint rural schools have nearly disappeared, but their traditions of intimacy and multi-age learning provide an educational model for large districts nationwide. One-room schoolhouses…by choice and circumstance.  Teacher Newsmagazine.  Volume 12, Number 7, May/June 2000.  British Columbia Teachers' Federation. One-room schools are still around (5/28/1997) Marc Ransford. Ball State University. "One Room School -- Teaching Multiple Ages Simultaneously". Five in a Row.  Articles and Support.  February 1997 PHS Chat held on AOL Small Works.  Schools in Three States Showcase Virtues of Small Size. By Alison Yaunches.  The Rural School and Community Trust Playing in the Zone of Proximal Development: Qualities of Self-Directed Age Mixing between Adolescents and Young Children at a Democratic School.  Peter Gray and Jay Feldman American Journal of Education, volume 110 (2004), page 108.  [This study was done at the well known “open” school, or “unschool” in Massachussetts, Sudbury Valley School.] At an ungraded, democratically structured school, we documented 196 naturally occurring interaction sequences between adolescents (ages 1219) and children (ages 411) who were at least four years younger than the adolescent. Children and adolescents appeared to be drawn together by common interests and play styles, personal attraction, and complementary desires to nurture and be nurtured. Further analyses identified apparent contributions of such interactions to both parties' physical, intellectual, and social/moral education. Adolescents led children to act within the latter's zones of proximal development (Vygotsky's term), and children stimulated adolescents to make implicit knowledge explicit, be creative, and practice nurturance and leadership. Links to education resources