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(...)Flexible grouping practices that call for collaboration by diverse groups of students, when combined with high expectations and high-quality mathematics instruction, have great potential for ensuring equity and excellence for all students. These practices enable teachers to meet a wide range of individual needs. Consequently, they also may enable educators to be more responsive to the concerns of diverse parents and community members.A thoughtful reexamination of grouping practices can bring the educational community closer to the vision for excellent schools in OERI's National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1993 [Now Institute of Educational Sciences]). This report recommends that we create flexible schools - using flexible grouping and instructional opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom - that improve education for all students, including the most able. Fonte