Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
The bottom line is that the people actually working in real classrooms with real students have always done this, WILL always do it, and pretty much cannot serve ANY students well unless they do it, and they don't need a lot of data on "best practices" and "inclusion" to know how to do the right things with the construct.
Except for math, our district worked to dismantle all ability grouping/tracking mechanisms until just 2 years ago when they were found to be out of compliance on state gifted policy.