Reducing the Gap [microform] : Success for All and the Achievement of African-American and Latino Students / Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden
- Bib ID:
- 5683108
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Slavin, Robert E
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED455079
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001
- 26 p.
- Summary:
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One educational innovation that is having a widespread and disproportionate impact on the gap in academic achievement between African-American and Latino children and their White peers is Success for All (SFA), a comprehensive reform model for elementary schools piloted in Baltimore in 1987. SFA, a whole-school reform model that focuses primarily on reading, provides schools with research-based curriculum materials, instructional strategies, and extensive professional development and follow-up. It provides one-to-one tutoring for young children struggling in reading, as well as active parent involvement programs. A large number of studies have found significant positive effects of SFA on the reading achievement of African-American and Latino students. A Texas statewide evaluation of 111 SFA schools found that while the racial gap in Texas Assessment of Academic Skills reading achievement was diminishing for all Texas schools, 1994-98, it diminished significantly more for African-American and Latino students in SFA schools. For schools that had implemented SFA for the longest time, the final gap was only 4 percentage points for African-American students and 7 for Latinos, compared to 14 and 10, respectively, for Texas African-American and Latino students not in SFA schools. The results of these studies suggest that African-American and Latino students may be particularly responsive to improved quality of instruction, and that with a variety of educational interventions it may be possible to substantially reduce or eliminate the persistent achievement gap. (Contains 18 references and 8 figures.) (TD)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: R-117-40005.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Seattle, WA, April 10-14, 2001).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Academic Achievement
- Achievement Gains
- Black Students
- Change Strategies
- Educational Change
- Elementary Education
- Hispanic American Students
- Improvement Programs
- Models
- Outcomes of Education
- Program Evaluation
- Racial Differences
- Reading Achievement
- Reading Instruction
- Success for All Program
- African Americans Latinos Texas
- Other authors/contributors:
- Madden, Nancy A, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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