One technique for converting otherwise passive activities to nonpassive is grouping them and treating them collectively as a single activity, thereby combining the participation hours and improving a ...

Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact -- positive or negative -- on reading development for elementary school students, shows a new study ...

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 ...

This week’s “question of the week” is: “What does research say about use of ability groups/tracking, and how have you seen it used or misused? What are workable alternatives?” Part One in this series ...

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 ...

Education researchers have found major flaws in theeducation policy aiming to have ability groupings as the norm in key subjects. Two new separate studies show that sorting school children into sets ...