The Dalton Plan
Abstract
Some causes of overageness may be removed by individual instruction. One of the causes is late entrance. A late entrant may be a child from another state where compulsory education is not enforced. By means of individual instruction he may progress rapidly, if his intelligence permits, to a class composed of children his own age or mental development. Sometimes the late entrant is a foreigner who has not attended school. A judiciously selected course of study with individual instruction will soon enable him to attain the proper grade if he has normal intelligence. A third kind of late entrant is the foreigner who has attended school but does not know English. A program providing a great deal of English will enable him to progress rapidly so that he will not be retarded. Absence and truancy are other causes of overageness. The child who is absent frequently because of ill health is likely to fail a whole term’s work because he has missed the foundation work.
Subject Area
Educational psychology|Mental health
Recommended Citation
Seale, Irene Evelyn, "The Dalton Plan" (1928). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097118.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097118
