Title: Archived: SUCCESS FOR ALL
Headings: Success for All
August 1993
Success for All
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Content: Teachers and teacher training: Teachers and tutors receive 3 days of inservice training and detailed manuals at the beginning of each school year, and extensive classroom follow-up throughout the year. For grades one through three, the training is focused on implementation of the reading program. Preschool and kindergarten teachers and aides are trained in the use of the STaR and Peabody programs and in other aspects of the preschool/kindergarten models. Advisory committee: An advisory committee, composed of the school principal, the program facilitator, teacher representatives, a social worker, and Johns Hopkins research staff, meets weekly to review program progress. HOW SUCCESSFUL IS IT? Research scientists have conducted a series of assessments of Success for All participants which indicate significant improvement in test scores, especially for those students whose pretest scores placed them in the lowest quarter of their grade. In fact, only 3.9 percent of third-graders in the program since the first grade are currently performing 2 years below grade level, compared with 11.7 percent of the matched control group students. Retention and special education placements have also declined significantly since the program was implemented.