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Accord<strong>in</strong>g to a 2002 nationwide survey<strong>of</strong> more than 1,200 fourth- andeighth-grade teachers, 55 percent <strong>of</strong>fourth-grade teachers prefer cooperativelearn<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>com</strong>pared to only 26 percentwho favor teacher-directedformats. Only 35 percent <strong>of</strong> fourthgradeand 29 percent <strong>of</strong> eighth-gradeteachers spend more than half theirclassroom time on traditional <strong>in</strong>struction,while 42 percent <strong>of</strong> fourth-gradeand 41 percent <strong>of</strong> eighth-grade teachersspend at least a quarter <strong>of</strong> class time ongroup work. Among younger teachers,small-group learn<strong>in</strong>g is even more popular,suggest<strong>in</strong>g that the trend will cont<strong>in</strong>uefor some time to <strong>com</strong>e.<strong>The</strong> cooperative approach has politicallyprogressive roots—the theory isthat students take ownership <strong>of</strong> theireducation when they learn from oneanother—but accord<strong>in</strong>g to elementary231/929

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