Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools - Meritocracy's Undeserving

While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies over and above ethical principles on the education of society’s most vulnerable, our children.

The practice, which happens across social class, humiliates children deemed ‘less academically able’ by ‘...