What is Laborschule Bielefeld?
'''Laborschule Bielefeld''' ('''Laboratory school Bielefeld''') is [[school]] in [[Bielefeld]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]]. The school was created in 1974. It is based on the ideas of [[Hartmut von Hentig]]. Laborschule Bielefeld tries new ways of [[teaching]]. The [[University of Bielefeld]] runs the school. Laborschule Bielefeld has [[student]]s from grade 0 through grade 10. Each grade has 60 students in it with a total of 660 students in the school. Laborschule Bielefeld does not group children by age. It groups them by level of learning. In that way, there are groups of children of different ages that are together to learn. Only students in grades nine and ten get written marks for their work. The school was rated with a [[Programme for International Student Assessment|PISA-Test]]. The test showed that students at the school were generally better at [[reading]] and in [[science]]s than students of the same age who went to other schools. [[Category:Education in North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:Bielefeld]] {{Europe-stub}}