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The rowing event, one of the world's largest for clubs, colleges and universities, also has seen a surge in popularity for the mixed-age alumni race, where each rower in a school's boat older than 30 is given a handicap according to their age.

When Starters Are Better as Relievers 2010

Peter Gray, a psychologist at Boston College, points out that older kids are uniquely able to provide support -- often referred to as "scaffolding" -- for younger kids in mixed-age play.

Alfie Kohn: Five Not-So-Obvious Propositions About Play Alfie Kohn 2011

Students often build close relationships with teachers, pupils in mixed-age groups help each other learn, and parents and neighbors tend to get so deeply involved that the school becomes the center of community life.

Lessons From the One-Room Schoolhouse Sue Shellenbarger 2011

Although she was assigned to a mixed-age classroom of 18 students, she wasn't given any direction about what to teach, and she was expected to discipline her restless charges by slapping them with a small switch.

Delaying College to Fill in the Gaps Sue Shellenbarger 2010

Consider this … In Montessori, children are placed in mixed-age classrooms.

To Montessori, Or Not To Montessori | Her Bad Mother 2008

The mixed-age crowd, by all accounts, loved it, and I experienced one of the most astounding large-public-gathering moments of my concert going career: the enormous audience sat rapt, silent, throughout the quiet 2nd movement of the Beethoven.

Greg Mitchell: After 100,000 Gather in Central Park: How a Former Rocker Came to Embrace Beethoven 2009

They swept the floor, stoked the stove, rang the hand-bell and taught their mixed-age students by rote and recitation.

In One Room, Many Advantages By Bill Kauffman 2009

In Montessori, children are placed in mixed-age classrooms.

To Montessori, Or Not To Montessori 2008

I solved our summer-care challenge for a while by enrolling both my school-age children at a family child-care home; both enjoyed the small, mixed-age group and my older child learned some child-care skills by helping out.

Work & Family Mailbox 2008

This hostility toward mixed-age marriages is nothing more than Pecksniffian cases of envy, jealousy, fear and avarice.

The Hypocrisy of Monogamy: Divorce and Adultery Versus Polygamy 2007