| Title |
No quick fix : rethinking literacy programs in America's elementary schools / edited by Richard L. Allington & Sean A. Walmsley. |
| Edition |
RTI edition. |
| OCLC |
157023119 |
| ISBN |
9780807748442 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0807748447 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780807748459 (cloth) |
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0807748455 (cloth) |
| Publisher |
New York, NY : Teachers College Press ; Newark, DE : International Reading Association, [2007] |
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©2007 |
| Description |
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Language arts (Elementary) -- United States.
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Children with social disabilities -- Education (Elementary) -- United States.
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Reading (Elementary) -- United States.
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Educational change -- United States -- Case studies.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Literacy lessons in the elementary schools: yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Richard L. Allington. Pt. I. A framework for change. Redefining and reforming instructional support programs for at-risk students / Sean A. Walmsley and Richard L. Allington -- Flunking: throwing good money after bad / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen -- Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention / Philip C. Dyer and Ronald Blinkney -- Portfolios in the classroom: what happens when teachers and students negotiate assessment? / Laura P. Stowell and Robert J. Tierney. Pt. II. Case studies of school change. Literacy partnerships for change with "at-risk" kindergarteners / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Ellen M. O'Connor -- Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recover: an educationally sound, cost-effective choice / Carol A. Lyons and Joetta Beaver -- Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades / Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, and Patricia M. Cunningham -- First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom / Barbara Taylor ... [et al.] -- Scoring well on tests or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school / Trudy P. Walp and Sean A. Walmsley -- Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down / Susan Carey Biggam, Nancy Teitelbaum, and Jan Willey -- Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children: Chapter I schoolwide projects / Linda F. Winfield -- The implementation of the accelerated school model in an urban elementary school / Stephanie L. Knight and Jane A. Stallings -- Afterword: no quick fix: where do we go from here? / Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley. |
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