- Access and Equity in Mathematics Education - EXTEND - Perspectives in Mathematics Education
Links to information about providing access to higher mathematics for all students amidst continuing public debate about the wisdom of tracking and the role of federal, state, and local policy in enabling reform. Equity and Access in Mathematics Education;
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- Algebra Project: Organizing in the Spirit of Ella - Civic Practices Network (CPN)
This math-science program in Cambridge, MA has organized local communities to help make algebra available to all 7th and 8th grade students, regardless of their prior level of skill development or academic achievement. This paper examines how the developers
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- The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping (ERIC Digest) - Lilian G. Katz
"Goodlad and Anderson, who introduced the modern notion of the non-graded elementary school in 1959, raised our awareness of the fact that age is a crude indicator of what learning experiences children are ready for... The terms 'ungraded' and 'nongraded'
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- Breaking the Barriers to Change - Coalition of Essential Schools (CES)
A Fall Forum Special Report from HORACE, a publication of the Coalition of Essential Schools, addressing such questions as: How can you talk about scheduling cross-disciplinary courses without confronting the resistant faculty who will not consider teaching
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- The Challenge of Detracking: Finding the Balance between Excellence and Equity - Lockwood, Cleveland; UEWeb
Download this PDF for an introduction to and background of tracking; terminology, issues, and data showing prevalence and impact; and bibliography.
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- Clustering - District 742 Talent Development Task Force, Minnesota
The advantages of clustering, that is, placing a small group of gifted children in a larger classroom.
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- Detracking America's Schools: The Reform Without Cost? - Brewer, Rees, Argys; Phi Delta Kappan
The practice of grouping school students by level of ability, known as tracking, has long been used in American public schools. In recent years, opponents of tracking have argued that below-average students are hindered by being grouped together, while
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- Grouping: Articles and Research - Carolyn K., Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Articles and reports on grouping practices, primarily as related to the education of gifted children.
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- Grouping Practices (NCREL) - Pathways to School Improvement
"Grouping practices - especially tracking - often have the effect of reducing equity." This article explores the negative effects of tracking and touches on cooperative learning. From the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL).
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- Individual Differences and the United States Education System - Douglas Trelfa
An overview of ability grouping and tracking in the United States, from The Educational System in the United States: Case Study Findings, March 1999. A discussion of the diversity of beliefs found regarding the question of how to deal effectively and
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- Mathematics for Work - ICMI, Forman, Steen
A report by Susan Forman and Lynn Arthur Steen on issues concerning mathematical preparation for work that appeared in the December 1994 Bulletin of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). In the United States there is strong
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- One size fits all? - Mike Robison; Mathematics Dept., Michigan State University
Age based tracking versus ability grouping in elementary school mathematics. A research paper on ability and age grouping that reviews the literature and makes suggestions for math education.
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- The Other Crisis in American Education - Singal (Atlantic Monthly)
A look at potentially high achievers whose SAT scores have fallen, and who "read less, understand less of what they read, and know less han the top students of a generation ago." Includes statements like "schools that had 'severely declining test scores'
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- Sociological Foundations Supporting the Study of Cultural Diversity - Hugh Mehan, Univ. of California at San Diego
In order to understand the barriers to educational equality faced by low-income cultural and linguistic minority youth, we need to understand the ways in which social class and ethnicity interact with language and culture. This paper examines various
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