If you had walked into the classrooms at my Rockford, Illinois, elementary school a few years ago, you would have seen something very different from what happens there today. Back then, like many ...

Why don’t schools group students? This would allow for each child to be appropriately challenged academically. It seems as though the children who are taught with others on the same developmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has unveiled how Australian secondary schools make decisions about organizing students into classes based on their perceived academic ability. Subscribe ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part One, Valentina Gonzalez, Olivia Montero Petraglia, Jenny Vo, and Jennifer Mitchell provided their ...

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.