Recent research points out that ability grouping is educationally unsound. It is alien to the principle that students must be provided with continuous educational experiences adjusted to individual rates of development, needs, interests, and personal meaning. In addition, ability grouping leads to stereotyped and stratified roles, and parental,…

The objectives, programs, and procedures of the English department at Maine Township High School South in Park Ridge, Illinois, are set forth in this handbook. The 14 sections cover the following areas: the department philosophy; the community and the student body; the purposes and objectives of the district's educational program; departmental…

THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF PENNSYLVANIA JOINED IN THEIR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION OF GIFTED PUPILS. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO EACH DISTRICT. FROM THE REPLIES, SEVERAL GENERALIZATIONS WERE MADE REGARDING GIFTED PROGRAMS IN THE STATE. IN SELECTING PUPILS FOR THESE PROGRAMS, THE GENERAL PRACTICE IS TO CONSIDER GROUP INTELLIGENCE SCORES, INDIVIDUAL…

A COMMISSION WAS SET UP BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO IDENTIFY GIFTED STUDENTS AND TO CONDUCT RESEARCH TO FIND THE BEST METHODS FOR TEACHING THEM. PILOT CENTERS IDENTIFIED THE GIFTED THROUGH TESTS AND RATINGS AND DEMONSTRATED TEACHING PROCEDURES AS LISTED IN THE SURVEY RESULTS. THESE SCHOOLS WERE SURVEYED IN 1960 TO DETERMINE WHAT PROGRAMS WERE…

FOUR AREAS ARE CONSIDERED - SURVEYS AND PUBLICATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTANT SERVICES, PILOT PROGRAMS, AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS. UNDER SURVEYS AND PUBLICATIONS ARE LISTED ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL, SUMMER SCHOOL SESSIONS, RESOURCE CONSULTANTS, AND KEYS TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF GIFTED CHILDREN. UNDER WORKSHOP AND CONSULTANT SERVICES…

A COMMITTEE WAS ASSIGNED TO EVALUATE THE PROGRAMS PREPARING STUDENTS FOR EMPLOYMENT. MAJOR CRITICISM WAS LEVELED AT BOTH THE INCONSISTENCY AND INADEQUACY OF MANY SCHOOL PROGRAMS. ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL NEEDS WAS THE IMPROVEMENT OF COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS. SCHOOLS TENDED TO DOWNGRADE VOCATIONAL COURSES AND CREATE…

ELEVEN RESEARCH PROJECTS DEALT IN SOME WAY WITH AN ASPECT OF EDUCATION FOR THE ACADEMICALLY TALENTED STUDENT. AMONG THOSE DISCUSSED AND EVALUATED ARE--(1) THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF GIFTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN REGULAR AND ABILITY-GROUPED CLASSES, (2) THE FREQUENCY OF ACADEMIC UNDERACHIEVEMENT AMONG PUPILS WHO DISPLAY HIGH SCHOLASTIC…

IN AN EFFORT TO CLARIFY THE QUESTION OF THE VALUE OF ABILITY GROUPING, THE POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF LEVEL OF READING GROUP PLACEMENT ON PRIMARY STUDENTS ENJOYMENT OF READING AND SELF-PERCEPTION AS READERS WAS STUDIED IN THREE RANDOMLY-SELECTED FIRST-, SECOND-, AND THIRD-GRADE CLASSROOMS IN A CORVALLIS, OREGON, SCHOOL LOCATED IN A LOWER-MIDDLE TO…

Factors used in selecting children for admission to preschool programs and factors that determine the way children are grouped within preschool programs are discussed. Factors that affect the composition and number of children admitted to a program are said to include funds, number of staff available, size of facility, current legislation and…

Educational games present the complex realities of simultaneous interactive processes more accurately and effectively than serial processes such as lecturing and reading. Objectives of educational gaming are to motivate students by presenting relevant and realistic problems and to induce more efficient and active understanding of information.…

Evaluation of Cycles R-40 of the Listen Look Learn Multi-Media Communication Skills System (LLL) is reported. Data were gathered from 26 schools through item analysis of pupil workbook responses, summation of teacher evaluations, and standardized tests. Subjects were first graders in 28 LLL classes and in 28 control classes, using basal reading…

The deliberate assignment of students to groups, generally grades and classrooms, is an integral part of education in schools; in addition, tracks, streams, and ability groups are created in many educational systems. The resulting partitioning of students is referred to here as the organizational differentiation of students. The purpose of this…

This paper relates racial allocation among and within schools to student behavior, attitudes, and test performance. The main objectives were (1) to relate grouping procedures to specific performance and behavioral criteria, and to attitudinal and perceptual responses of students, including their college plans; and (2) to examine the combined…

This booklet features the success of New York Public School 129 in conducting its reading program for disadvantaged students. The principal of this Harlem school emphasizes primarily her role as head teacher and assigns a secondary place to her executive functions. Rather than stress such current innovative practices as heterogeneous groupings,…

The question of an interaction over time between ability grouping and personality variables was the focus of the present study which examined pertinent data from 260 female high school students. Two standardized personality instruments, in addition to several scales designed by the E's, were administered to students of the upper and lower ability…