Categorical vs. Noncategorical Teacher Training

When education is provided in any manner other than having the teacher on one end of a log and the pupil on the other end, students obviously must be classified and grouped for instruction according to some rational scheme. Random groupings have been unthinkable since the one-room, country school house became extinct. Unfortunately, the ways we have been classifying and grouping children in special education and tracking teachers for training in special education, I contend, have not been fully rational. Despite all our concerns with providing the best education possible for children and training enough teachers to serve them, eve have never thought through the question of what is