This essay argues that schools for most of the 20th century constructed several categories of "dissimilarity" or different ability, and that these categories were created or soon appropriated to mean…
In the course of the 20th century, compulsory education laws and compulsory school leaving exams attracted more and more students to school – including those who were previously considered unfit…
The significant student differences within supposedly homogeneous classes are obvious and well documented. And yet, for most people, the characteristics and categories by which students are sorted remain more striking…
Being placed in a low grade becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of low expectations, fewer opportunities, and poor academic performance. Poor performance starts the cycle over again, giving schools additional justification…
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