Sources list for CHILD'S LEARNING ABILITY:

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando. "Qualifications and Experience: What Employers Know and Don't Know About Their Workers' Ability - And How They Profit From What They Learn." Employer Learning and Schooling-related Statistical Discrimination in Britain. Royal Econ
Employer Discrimination

Ad Hoc Committee on Ability Grouping. "Ability Grouping in Social Studies." http://www.ncss.org/standa rds/positions/ability.html Ad Hoc Committee on Ability Grouping. "Ability Grouping in Social Studies." http://www.ncss.org/standa rds/positions/ability.html
Tracked vs. Untracked

Nikolova, Ofelia and Gregory Taylor. "The impact of a language learning task on instructional outcomes in two student populations: High-ability and average-ability students." Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, Vol. 14, Issue 4, 2003.
Foreign Language Education

Cain, K., Oakhill, J. V., & Elbro, C. (2003). The ability to learn new word meanings from context by school-age children with and without language comprehension difficulties. J Child Lang, 30(3), 681-694.
The Ability to Read

McCulloch, Andrew and Heather E. Joshi. (2001)."Neighborhood and Family Influences on the Cognitive Ability of Children in the British National Child Development Study." Social Science and Medicine, 53, 5: 579-591.
Poverty and Family Stress