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Preface
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Introduction
Literacy Lessons in the Elementary Schools: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Richard L. Allington
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Part I: A Framework for Change
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Chapter 1
Redefining and Reforming Instructional Support Programs for At-Risk Students
Sean A. Walmsley, Richard L. Allington
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Chapter 2
Flunking: Throwing Good Money After Bad
Richard L. Allington, Anne McGill-Franzen
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Chapter 3
Estimating Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Outcomes: Retention, Remediation, Special Education, and Early Intervention
Philip C. Dyer, Ronald Binkney
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Chapter 4
Portfolios in the Classroom: What Happens When Teachers and Students Negotiate Assessment?
Laura P. Stowell, Robert J. Tierney
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Part II: Case Studies of School Change
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Chapter 5
Literacy Partnerships for Change with
“At-Risk” Kindergartners
Lesley Mandel Morrow, Ellen M. O'Connor
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Chapter 6
Reducing Retention and Learning Disability Placement Through Reading Recovery: An Educationally Sound, Cost-Effective Choice
Carol A. Lyons, Joetta Beaver
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Chapter 7
Eliminating Ability Grouping and Reducing Failure in the Primary Grades
Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, Patricia M. Cunningham
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Chapter 8
First Grade Teachers Provide Early Reading Intervention in the Classroom
Barbara Taylor, Ruth Short, Brenda Shearer, Barbara Frye
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Chapter 9
Scoring Well on Tests or Becoming Genuinely Literate: Rethinking Remediation in a Small Rural School
Trudy P. Walp, Sean A. Walmsley
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Chapter 10
Improving Early Literacy: Vermont Stories of Educational Change from the Bottom Up and the Top Down
Susan Carey Biggam, Nancy Teitelbaum, Jan Willey
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Chapter 11
Change in Urban Schools with High Concentrations of Low-Income Children: Chapter I Schoolwide Projects
Linda F. Winfield
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Chapter 12
The Implementation of the Accelerated School Model in an Urban Elementary School
Stephanie L. Knight, Jane A. Stallings
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Afterword
No Quick Fix: Where Do We Go from Here?
Richard L. Allington, Sean A. Walmsley
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Index
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About the Contributors
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