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Article: Ability grouping.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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There are few topics in education as controversial as ability grouping and probably none more so. Few aspects of American education have been studied as extensively or as inconclusively as this one. If one is determined to find research evidence that ability grouping is educationally ineffective and socially inequitable, one can easily find it. On the other hand, if one determines, a priori, that ability grouping is an educational panacea and poses no moral dilemmas related to the inequitable allocation of educational resources, data from the research literature can be found to support that point of view as well.
The reasons for the controversy surrounding ability ...