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Article: In search of reality: unraveling the myths about tracking, ability grouping, and the gifted.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Educational bandwagons are a dime a dozen. Educators want to be on the cutting edge of educational improvement and are concerned about excellence in education and about providing programs that help their students. The last thing any educator wants to do is to be responsible for educational decisions that are harmful to anyone, least of all to students who already have had too many disadvantages heaped upon them in their lives. Thus the pendulum swings again, moving from one extreme to another, typically without ample consideration of the impact of the latest trend in education on those students who benefited the most from some of the approaches being abandoned.
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