Most of the research literature suggests that ability grouping denies quality of educational opportunity. Educational selection systems, such as ability grouping, are less concerned with education than they are with socializing students' attitudes, personalities, and behaviors into work roles. (RM)

The study of enrollment trends for each of Hudson County Community College's programs and for its academic status classifications will be used in the college's program reviews and should also prove useful in its strategic planning. The significant growth in combined Liberal Arts AA English/ Humanities and Business/Social Sciences program majors…

Schools frequently use test scores to divide students into groups, i.e., to classify them. In attempting to challenge such procedures, lawyers can draw on a developed body of case law on testing in education, employment, and other areas. Discusses those cases. (JF)

Discusses the alternative learning and teaching system, Individually Guided Education (IGE). (JF)

The present status and predicted trends with respect to homogeneous grouping suggest that the cardinal objective of providing each child with an equal educational opportunity will NOT be realized. (Author)

Research indicates that less streaming of the grammar school ability band leads to social and academic gain for more pupils but with some loss in performance by the brightest boys. Perhaps too wide an ability range in the class would increase this loss intolerably. (Author)

Grouping heterogeneously, homogeneously, and flexibly made no significant difference in academic achievement in research done on 260 children over a 2-year period. (Editor)

Results of survey condutted by University of Birmingham School of Mathematics reveal the effect of the sex and social class of a student on his or her educational achievement and eventual career. (Author)

Researcher recommends a lottery for admissions and a curricular cafeteria" with an educational menu" because research findings do not support assumptions used to justify traditional practices of college and unicersity admissions and tradiational approaches to curriculum and certification. (Editor)

Contains the complete text of an interview with the author of a recent short study of the plight of black (especially West Indian) students in the schools for the educationally subnormal. (JM)

Far from upsetting the status quo of American higher education, the junior colleges shore it up. The expansion of these colleges on present terms may serve to subvert and postpone urgently needed educational change. (DM)