This article discusses ability grouping, also known as tracking or homogenous grouping, in the public schools. Ability grouping has resulted in dividing the all-school program into different tracks and subtracks. Ability grouping emanated from the "efficiency" movement and the principles of scientific management which increasingly dominated American education during the first four decades of the twentieth century. High schools have always grouped students typically in three curriculum tracks:... more

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