Want to strike a nerve? Start writing about whether ability grouping works or not. In her recent guest post, Shirley Clarke wrote about how, in many cases, ability grouping doesn’t work. Clarke began ...

MOST of the nation’s comprehensive high schools have the problem of supplying a maximum educational challenge for students of wide differences in ability and preparation. With 87.9 per cent of all ...

After being condemned as discriminatory in the 1990s, grouping students by academic ability seems to be back in vogue with a new generation of teachers, according to an analysis of federal teacher ...

Is grouping students a good idea? Because I believe it is not. Grouping students by ability is a bad idea because it could backfire, even though grouping students by ability is supposed to help ...

I strongly disagree with the opinion, "Children belong in intellectually diverse classrooms," (Advocate, Oct 29) by Eric J Cooper. I believe Mr. Cooper distorts the research findings and undermines ...

African-American and Hispanic students placed in ability groups for reading instruction learned less compared to demographically similar minority students who weren't grouped by ability, a new study ...

So now The Advocate has weighed in on the debate of how best to teach the youth of Stamford, and with typical arrogance, declares the discussion over. With a tone of condescension and palpable disdain ...

Ability grouping, also known as tracking at the high school level, is an educational issue entrenched in social inequities. While it may seem logical to many parents to place kids in groups based on a ...

Rachel Marks previously received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (award number: PTA-031-2006-00387) to conduct the PhD research on which this piece is based. Jayden wasn’t ...

New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has unveiled how Australian secondary schools make decisions about organizing students into classes based on their perceived academic ability. Lead ...