Source
Research Spotlight on Academic Ability Grouping
http://www.nea.org/tools/16899.htm
http://www.nea.org/tools/16899.htm
My topic
Every elementary schools should not give lessons with ability grouping.
What I hope to learn from this source
I want to figure out what the ability grouping means. And what arguments about ability grouping are existing. Also I want to figure out what are the differences in effect between elementary schools and high schools.
Notes
1. Ability grouping (tracking) : grouping children according to their talents in schools.
2. For the lower tracks, a steady diet of lower expectations leads to a low level of motivation toward school.
3.Students with high abilities and skills were given intense, rigorous academic training while students with lower abilities were given a vocational education.
4. Proponents of ability grouping say that the practice allows teachers to tailor the pace and content of instruction much better to students' needs and, thus, improve student achievement.
5.Opponents contend that ability grouping not only fails to benefit any student, but it also channels poor and minority students to low tracks where they receive a lower quality of instruction than other groups.
6. ability grouping contributes to a widening of the achievement gaps.
7. The National Education Association believes that the use of discriminatory academic tracking based on economic status, ethnicity, race, or gender must be eliminated in all public school settings (NEA Resolutions B-16, 1998, 2005)
3.Students with high abilities and skills were given intense, rigorous academic training while students with lower abilities were given a vocational education.
4. Proponents of ability grouping say that the practice allows teachers to tailor the pace and content of instruction much better to students' needs and, thus, improve student achievement.
5.Opponents contend that ability grouping not only fails to benefit any student, but it also channels poor and minority students to low tracks where they receive a lower quality of instruction than other groups.
6. ability grouping contributes to a widening of the achievement gaps.
7. The National Education Association believes that the use of discriminatory academic tracking based on economic status, ethnicity, race, or gender must be eliminated in all public school settings (NEA Resolutions B-16, 1998, 2005)
Final thoughts
This source can be used to support my argument. Especially it can also be used to rebut the opponent. Next I would research about NEA resolutions.
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