The Allocation of Educational Environment, Ability Grouping, and the Law.

Brown, Frank; Smith, Elsie

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ERIC Number: EJ143974

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Publication Date: 1976

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The Allocation of Educational Environment, Ability Grouping, and the Law

Brown, Frank; Smith, Elsie

Urban Education, 11, 2, 201-216, Jul 76

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of ability grouping in relation to equal educational opportunity as provided for by the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In view of the disproportionate numbers of minorities assigned to low ability groups, is grouping legal? (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Constitutional History, Educational Environment, Educational Opportunities, Equal Protection, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Legal Responsibility, Minority Group Children, Resource Allocation, School Responsibility

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