Success for All: Research and Reform in Elementary Education

by Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A.; Ross, Steven M.; Smith, Lana

• ISBN13: 9780805838107
• ISBN10: 0805838104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Success for All is a comprehensive reform model for elementary school that combines state-of-the-art curriculum, research-based instructional methods, assessments, and professional development with one-to-one tutoring, extensive family support services, and other strategies to ensure that every child is successful in the early grades and then builds on that success throughout the elementary years. Started in 1987, it is the most widely used of all reform designs. It is currently in about 1800 schools serving more than a million U.S. children, mostly in high-poverty schools. It is also the most extensively researched comprehensive reform program, with two dozen evaluations carried out in eight research institutions. Success for All: Research and Reform in Elementary Education is the first edited volume presenting research on Success for All in the U.S. and in five other countries for which the program has been adapted. This book presents a description of Success for All, an overall summary of all achievement studies, reviews of research, original presentations of new research, and discussions of the impacts and the implications of this research and dissemination for educational policy and practice in many arenas.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	xi
I ESSENTIAL RESEARCH ON SUCCESS FOR ALL	1	(78)
Success for All: An Overview	3	(14)
Robert E. Slavin
Nancy A. Madden
Summary of Research on Success for All and Roots & Wings	17	(32)
Robert E. Slavin
Nancy A. Madden
Success for All in Memphis: Raising Reading Performance in High-Poverty Schools	49	(30)
Steven M. Ross
Lana J. Smith
II INTERNATIONAL ADAPTATIONS OF SUCCESS FOR ALL	79	(116)
The Implementation and Impact of Success for All in English Schools	81	(12)
Alma Harris
David Hopkins
Judith Wordsworth
Can Success for All Succeed in Canada?	93	(18)
Bette Chambers
Philip C. Abrami
Scott Morrison
A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Schoolwide Early Language and Literacy Program (SWELL)	111	(38)
Yola Center
Louella Freeman
Gregory Robertson
Success for All: A Community Model for Advancing Arabs and Jews in Israel	149	(30)
Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz
Success for All in Mexico	179	(16)
Margarita Calderon
III IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE	195	(32)
Disseminating Success for All: Lessons for Policy and Practice	197	(30)
Robert E. Slavin
Nancy A. Madden
Author Index	227	(4)
Subject Index	231