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Title No quick fix : rethinking literacy programs in America's elementary schools / edited by Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley
Published New York : Teachers College Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Language and literacy series
Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Contents Introduction: Literacy Lessons in the Elementary Schools: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow / Richard L. Allington -- Ch. 1. Redefining and Reforming Instructional Support Programs for At-Risk Students / Sean A. Walmsley and Richard L. Allington -- Ch. 2. Flunking: Throwing Good Money After Bad / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen -- Ch. 3. Estimating Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Outcomes: Retention, Remediation, Special Education, and Early Intervention / Philip C. Dyer and Ronald Binkney -- Ch. 4. Portfolios in the Classroom: What Happens When Teachers and Students Negotiate Assessment? / Laura P. Stowell and Robert J. Tierney -- Ch. 5. Literacy Partnerships for Change with "At-Risk" Kindergartners / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Ellen M. O'Connor -- Ch. 6. Reducing Retention and Learning Disability Placement Through Reading Recovery: An Educationally Sound, Cost-Effective Choice / Carol A. Lyons and Joetta Beaver -- Ch. 7. Eliminating Ability Grouping and Reducing Failure in the Primary Grades / Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte and Patricia M. Cunningham -- Ch. 8. First Grade Teachers Provide Early Reading Intervention in the Classroom / Barbara Taylor, Ruth Short, Brenda Shearer and Barbara Frye -- Ch. 9. Scoring Well on Tests or Becoming Genuinely Literate: Rethinking Remediation in a Small Rural School / Trudy P. Walp and Sean A. Walmsley -- Ch. 10. Improving Early Literacy: Vermont Stories of Educational Change from the Bottom Up and the Top Down / Susan Carey Biggam, Nancy Teitelbaum and Jan Willey -- Ch. 11. Change in Urban Schools with High Concentrations of Low-Income Children: Chapter I Schoolwide Projects / Linda F. Winfield -- Ch. 12. The Implementation of the Accelerated School Model in an Urban Elementary School / Stephanie L. Knight and Jane A. Stallings -- Afterword: No Quick Fix: Where Do We Go from Here? / Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Children with social disabilities -- Education (Elementary) -- United States -- Language arts
Children with social disabilities -- Education (Elementary) -- United States.
Children with social disabilities -- Education (Primary) -- United States -- Language arts
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States.
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- United States.
Language arts (Elementary) -- United States.
Language arts (Primary) -- United States.
Educational change -- United States -- Case studies.
Reading (Elementary) -- United States.
Reading (Primary) -- United States.
Children with social disabilities -- United States -- Education (Peimary) -- Language arts
Children with social disabilities -- Education (Primary) -- United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Allington, Richard L.
Walmsley, Sean A.
LC no. 94029705
ISBN 0807733881 (paper : acid-free paper)
080773389X (cloth : acid-free paper)