ABSTRACT
We have never experienced a paradigm change in education. All we know is piecemeal reforms. But there has been a paradigm change. In the mid-1800s, as our communities transformed from agrarian to industrial societies, the one-room schoolhouse no longer met our educational needs and was gradually replaced by the current factory model of schools. This was a paradigm change because the fundamental structure of the oneroom schoolhouse was different-it had no grade levels, no courses, and no standardized norm-referenced tests.
