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Marriage vows were promised between Florence Jaae Jones and James i ?ernard Baker June » at Shiloh Institutional Baptist Chart* with Rev. Tommy G. Davis officiating. Tbs bride is the daughter of Altie Jones of RashAve. The groom is the soo of Mr. and Mrs. Baker of Parkway Ave. The bride and groom met when she was In the ninth grade and he In the tenth. They became childhood sweethearts. Both graduated from Harding High School. The bride is employed at Yoang Brags and the groom is employed at Stationers Dist. Co. A reception was held at the Rainbow and Soloman Lodge on A may Janies 8t. The couple will bOMQrmoon la Myrtle Beach. S.C. 7^ • Me GUI-Turner fines Exchanged ■ Cynthia Ann McGill and Laurence Edward Turner were joined in holy imatringmy Saturday, June 29, at Henderson Grove Presbyterian Church USA. ^ ‘ ^ ' ' ; The Rev. J. E. Maxwell officiated ; • The bride is the daughter of Mr. .‘and Mrs Benzell McGill of WU more Dr.'•.She graduated from Myers Park High School. She' bf^ ' employed by Southern Bell Tele phone Company. • . The groom IS the son: off ftt*. Alvina Turner and the late. John Turner. He graduated from high school in Gaithersburg, Maryland He is self-employed. Bridesmaids inciuded Sheila McGill and VlkW ^Stafford. The matron of honor was Brenda Evans Grbomsmen were Bennie McGill, Greg McGiH and Jerome Dupree. Best man was Els worth Turner, the groom’s brother. L'V The couple vdll reside in Ghar lott* —•fcr'a ’—fr-fh-—--—• Si * • > • * School Ability Groups Promote Segregation? Special To Hie Post v - Teachers who group their students according to ability might be prac ticing a subtle form of segregation while providing some students with an inferior education, according to a sociologist at the University ofNotre Dame. Dr. Maureen Hallinan, a white professor of sociology at the univer sity, said that while ability grouping might benefit the brightest student in a classroom, it can also create an atmosphere that discourages inter racial mixing and provides students in lower groups with inferior in struction. Because in many schools the high achievers are predominantly white students and low achievers black, Hallinan said that ability grouping can defeat the purpose of desegre gation plans. Compiled In collaboration with Dr. Aage Sorensen, sociology chairman at Harvard University, the findings result from a two-year study in which Hallinan surveyed 1,478 fourth through seventh grade stu dents in 48 different classrooms of 10 Northern California schools. Originally intending to concen trate upon the development of chil dren’s friendships with their class mates, Hallinan said the schools’ racial diversity led her to expand the focus. Her data, which attempts to determine If there are differences in the ways that black and white students choose their respective friends, can be useful in the im plementation of school desegrega tion plans. Her studies revealed that while both black and white children look for friends who share basic cha racteristics such as gender, age, race, socioeconomic background and achievement level, the organi zation of their classrooms can also have a great impact upon the friendship and learning processes. Students who were grouped to gether, especially on the hauls of aWlity, tended to choose their friends from within the group, Hallinan said. The grouping inten sifies the effects of similarity and distinguishes on* particularly < important characteristic. “Children tend not to choose friends who are lower achievers than themselves. Sometimes achievement is looked upon as more important than race,’’ she pointed —_ Teachers who group their stu dents according to ability, she ex plained, “are underscoring simi larity in achievement by putting these children together at the same achievement level, but setting them apart for everyone else to see.” In effect, she added, the grou pings can create a “partitioned" classroom by promoting friendliness among some students but constrain ing it among others. Considering that only a few black children are likely to be among the high achiev ers, the groupings can become a subtle form of segregation. She also discovered that on an overall basis, black children are more willing to initiate interracial friendships th^n their white class mates. Black children apprently are attracted by what they perceive as as social power associated with white students’ higher achieve ment. Within an ability group, the situation changes. White children aren’t likely to initiate interracial friendships without the prodding of structured activities such as classroom grou pings or extracurricular activities. Once the group is established, however, a white child is more likely to choose a black friend because of an emphasis upon their academic similarities and the opportunity to choose on the basis of individual personalities rather than basic characteristics. 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