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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Aotearoa New Zealand's high school teachers' union recently approved a policy to end streaming—also known as "ability grouping"—in New Zealand high schools by 2030. The primary teachers' union NZEI Te ...

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. Subscribe ...