Miami Study Critiques 'Success for All'
Success for All, one of the most highly praised models for turning around entire schools, got mediocre grades in an independent evaluation of the program conducted by Miami-Dade County school officials.
The nation's fourth-largest district began formally using the program in 48 schools four years ago in an effort to improve reading in its worst-performing elementary schools. The program, developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden, is built around the principle that every student should read skillfully by the end of 3rd grade.
Trying to gauge whether the program was working, district researchers examined changes in reading scores from 1996 to 1997 in 18 schools. Of that group, nine schools were using Success for All--three of them in combination with a technology program devised by Computer Curriculum Corp. and three in tandem with a computer program...
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