'Response to Intervention' in Math Seen as Challenging
Educators Explore Advice Laid Out in New Federal Practice Guide on Topic
Educators gathered here last week to discuss a recent
federal “practice guide”
on response to intervention for students struggling in mathematics agreed that applying the RTI approach to that subject is challenging. But they also suggested that doing so was worth the effort.
The practice guide, produced by an expert panel convened by the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse, offers eight recommendations for providing remediation in math through the RTI process to students in elementary and middle school.
While RTI has been studied extensively as a method of addressing problems with young children learning to read, the research base is much thinner for math, said Russell Gersten, the chairman of the federal panel that...
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