At the middle school level, things become a bit more complicated because each district has its own system for assigning students to schools.

It is where you assign students in groups of 3-6 people and they are given an assignment or task to work on together.

The board raised the figure of mistakenly assigned students yesterday to 8,668 - not the 2,000 to 3,000 first indicated by school officials.

And 3,492 of those mistakenly assigned students either never attended summer school or failed the second test.

Is it time for schools to ease up on the amount of homework they assign students?

In 1825, the College began simply assigning new students to one society or the other.

Others will assign students based on their performance as seen in class.

This city has joined a small but growing movement to use income, not race, as a primary factor in assigning students to schools.

Still, he estimated that "many hundreds of school districts" continued to use race in assigning students to schools.

We also have started a program that assigns students studying urban planning to each Manhattan community board.