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 ...

During short, purposeful sessions with a handful of students, teachers can address misconceptions—and help build stronger, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When school districts decide how English learners will receive language support and access to grade-level content, the default is often to group these students together during the school day. But new ...

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, ...

The group was visiting “as part of community-based instruction" when they were turned down at the Maryland restaurant, school superintendent Maria V. Navarro said Abigail Adams is a Human Interest ...

As the pressures from the poorly funded No Child Left Behind law to bring up the lowest achievers increase while funding is cut, the Rochester school district must remember that 1,700 gifted students ...