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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A new study by a University of Illinois professor found that minority students didn't learn as much when separated by ability for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critics say that the United States engages in ability grouping in an unhealthy, undemocratic way. Is there any truth to this claim? AEI’s Frederick M. Hess separates fact from fiction.

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 ...