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Rayman, Ronald – History of Education Quarterly, 1981
Discusses the factors influencing the rise and decline of the Lancasterian Monitorial System in American Indian schools during the early nineteenth century. Missionary schools adopted the system, in which older students were trained to teach younger ones basic literacy and manual skills, but abandoned it when it proved ineffective. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cross Age Teaching, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education