No quick fix
Subtitle: rethinking literacy programs in America's elementary schools
By: edited by Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley.
Contributors: Allington, Richard L.; Walmsley, Sean A.
Edition: RTI ed.
Series: Language and literacy series; Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press; International Reading Association
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY; Newark, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780807748442
Subjects: Language arts (Elementary) -- United States; Children with social disabilities -- Education (Elementary) -- United States; Reading (Elementary) -- United States; Educational change -- United States -- Case studies; English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Flunking: throwing good money after bad / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen; title: Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention / Philip C. Dyer and Ronald Binkney; title: 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" kindergartners / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Ellen M. O'Connor; title: Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recovery: an educationally sound, cost-effective choice / Carol A. Lyons and Joetta Beaver; title: Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades / Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, and Patricia M. Cunningham.; title: First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom / Barbara Taylor ... [et al.]; title: Scoring well on tests or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school / Trudy P. Walp and Sean A. Walmsley; title: Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down / Susan Carey Biggam, Nancy Teitelbaum, and Jan Willey; title: Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children: Chapter I schoolwide projects / Linda F. Winfield; title: The implementation of the accelerated school model in an urban elementary school / Stephanie L. Knight and Jane A. Stallings; title: Afterword: no quick fix: where do we go from here? / Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley.