Nothing prepared me for walking into that public-school classroom, already three weeks into fourth grade.

Heaven forbid we should have thought about letting Matt try his hand at being one of the smarter kids in a regular public-school classroom.

Almost all American public-school classrooms have at least one computer,8 and many preschools have them as well.

It was in some of the nation's public-school classrooms.

The state will also lose a volunteer who spends one day a week in a public-school classroom.

El Museo started in 1969 in a public-school classroom in East Harlem, then as now one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

A style of pedagogy prevails inside public-school classrooms that emphasizes rote learning and deference to the authority of the teacher.

Merari is part of a bold but hotly debated educational experiment: teaching even severely handicapped children in regular public-school classrooms instead of separate ones.

After all, the Internet is the antidote to the centralized authority of the public-school classroom.

One of Mr. Klagholz's goals is to increase the number of children who, like Ryan Lamson, are educated in regular public-school classrooms.