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Topic: Ability Grouping

Also see Minneapolis issues topic: Ability Grouping

Why Ability-Grouping Widens the Academic Achievement Gap

Extracted from the pamphlet, Perfuming the Minneapolis Schools, by Doug Mann

What is ability grouping?

28 September 2004, from Mpls issues list

Title VI*requires evaluation of ability grouping practices

*Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

28 September 2004, from Mpls issues list

Ability grouping students & teachers:

Minnesota's separate but equal doctrine doctrine

1 October 2004, from Mpls issues list

National Association of School Psychologists

Statement on Ability-Grouping

Adopted by the NASP Delegate Assembly, April 17, 1993

Reapproved by the NASP Delegate Assembly, July 25, 1998

http://www.nasponline.org/information/pospaper_ag.html

Hot Topic: Does Ability Grouping Help or Hurt?

A Talk with Anne Wheelock

teacher.scholastic.com

First Q & A: "Does ability grouping — or tracking — enhance academic achievement? No, and research tells us that it is not a neutral or benign practice, either. Although it is widespread and widely accepted, ability grouping generally depresses student achievement and is harmful to kids."

ASCD Reading Room selections

(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)

Untracking for Equity The Case for Untracking // by Anne Wheellock

On Tracking and Individual Differences:

A Conversation with Jeannie Oakes // by John O'Neil