Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you had walked into the classrooms at my Rockford, Illinois, elementary school a few years ago, you would have seen something ...

It doesn't take much to astound the education world. A few years ago the experts were rocked by news that "most juvenile crime happens after school." Yes, according to researchers, more kids commit ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction? Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group ...

If you're on the third floor, you must be going to social studies class. If you're on the fourth floor, it means you're in English class. When the 2,900 Danbury High School students return to school ...

Students classed as less able are being hindered by being grouped into ability-based sets, according to new research published today in the Cambridge Journal of Education. Teachers' expectations of ...

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 ...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s high school teachers’ union recently approved a policy to end streaming – also known as “ability grouping” – in New Zealand high schools by 2030. The primary teachers’ union ...

Wake County teachers and principals will likely get a warning about considering the impact of classroom diversity before they split students up into groups for instruction. The Wake County school ...