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INTRODUCTION Literacy Lessons in the Elementary Schools: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
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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 |
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Sean A. Walmsley and Richard L. Allington |
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CHAPTER 2 Flunking: Throwing Good Money After Bad |
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Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen |
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CHAPTER 3 Estimating Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Outcomes: Retention, Remediation, Special Education, and Early Intervention |
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Philip C. Dyer and Ronald Binkney |
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CHAPTER 4 Portfolios in the Classroom: What Happens When Teachers and Students Negotiate Assessment? |
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Laura P. Stowell and 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 |
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Lesley Mandel Morrow and 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 |
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Carol A. Lyons and Joetta Beaver |
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CHAPTER 7 Eliminating Ability Grouping and Reducing Failure in the Primary Grades |
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Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, and Patricia M. Cunningham |
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CHAPTER 8 First Grade Teachers Provide Early Reading Intervention in the Classroom |
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Barbara Taylor, Ruth Short, Brenda Shearer, and Barbara Frye |
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CHAPTER 9 Scoring Well on Tests or Becoming Genuinely Literate: Rethinking Remediation in a Small Rural School |
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Trudy P. Walp and 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 |
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Susan Carey Biggarn, Nancy Teitelbaum, and Jan Willey |
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CHAPTER 11 Change in Urban Schools with High Concentrations of Low-Income Children: Chapter I Schoolwide Projects |
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CHAPTER 12 The Implementation of the Accelerated School Model in an Urban Elementary School |
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Stephanie L. Knight and Jane A. Stallings |
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AFTERWORD No Quick Fix: Where Do We Go from Here? |
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Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley |
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Index |
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About the Contributors |
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