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 ...

Is grouping students a good idea? Because I believe it is not. Grouping students by ability is a bad idea because it could backfire, even though grouping students by ability is supposed to help ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests together — a practice once ...

Yet, when students from lower-level groups or streams are given the same opportunities as those in the top groups, they do just as well as those who supposedly had more ability. Proponents of ...

Every year, early elementary teachers welcome students with a wide range of reading abilities into their classrooms. Some kindergarteners may be reading whole books, for example, while others don’t ...

Is it better to have all English learners together, separate from their non-English learner peers? How about more instructional time in a heterogeneous classroom? Or pull-out sessions for language ...

In a recent opinion piece written by a Newton teacher, Ryan Normandin describes the shift toward so-called multilevel classrooms at the district’s two high schools. Three years ago, Newton Public ...

Researchers have developed a new approach that uses math to determine the best ways to group individuals to maximize learning. Their work has broad implications in education, as well as in economics, ...

In a guest column, retired Georgia educator Jim Arnold questions the long-held practice in public schools of grouping children by age and touts the Montessori method of multi-age groupings based on a ...

Imagine you have a group of 30 children who want to play soccer. You would like to divide them into two teams, so they can practice their skills and learn from their coaches to become better players.