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 ...

Practice of grouping students based on ability was frowned upon for decades No Child Left Behind may have played role in the return to grouping Goal is to improve reading and match achievement New ...

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 ...

The practice of clustering students by ability in elementary school classrooms — seating strong readers with other strong readers, struggling math students with other struggling math students — fell ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - In elementary school did the teacher put you in the lowest reading group? There was no way to hide it; you were labeled a bad reader! Those were the days of ability grouping, ...

Re “Challenges faced in any classroom,” May 24: The writer begins his advocacy of Ability Grouping by citing the problem: Low-income urban children are not prepared for school because their parents ...

Is it my imagination, or have you noticed that some public high school courses that are now called "honors" are equivalent to the regular "college prep" curriculum of earlier eras? And have you also ...

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 ...