No Quick Fix, The RTI Edition

Rethinking Literacy Programs in America's Elementary Schools

 

Preface

Introduction
Literacy Lessons in the Elementary Schools: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Richard L. Allington

Part I: A Framework for Change

Chapter 1
Redefining and Reforming Instructional Support Programs for At-Risk Students
Sean A. Walmsley, Richard L. Allington

Chapter 2
Flunking: Throwing Good Money After Bad
Richard L. Allington, Anne McGill-Franzen

Chapter 3
Estimating Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Outcomes: Retention, Remediation, Special Education, and Early Intervention
Philip C. Dyer, Ronald Binkney

Chapter 4
Portfolios in the Classroom: What Happens When Teachers and Students Negotiate Assessment?
Laura P. Stowell, Robert J. Tierney

Part II: Case Studies of School Change

Chapter 5
Literacy Partnerships for Change with “At-Risk” Kindergartners
Lesley Mandel Morrow, Ellen M. O'Connor

Chapter 6
Reducing Retention and Learning Disability Placement Through Reading Recovery: An Educationally Sound, Cost-Effective Choice
Carol A. Lyons, Joetta Beaver

Chapter 7
Eliminating Ability Grouping and Reducing Failure in the Primary Grades
Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, Patricia M. Cunningham

Chapter 8
First Grade Teachers Provide Early Reading Intervention in the Classroom
Barbara Taylor, Ruth Short, Brenda Shearer, Barbara Frye

Chapter 9
Scoring Well on Tests or Becoming Genuinely Literate: Rethinking Remediation in a Small Rural School
Trudy P. Walp, Sean A. Walmsley

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

Chapter 11
Change in Urban Schools with High Concentrations of Low-Income Children: Chapter I Schoolwide Projects
Linda F. Winfield

Chapter 12
The Implementation of the Accelerated School Model in an Urban Elementary School
Stephanie L. Knight, Jane A. Stallings

Afterword
No Quick Fix: Where Do We Go from Here?
Richard L. Allington, Sean A. Walmsley

Index

About the Contributors

 

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