No quick fix: rethinking literacy programs in America's elementary schools

Introduction: Literacy lessons in the elementary schools: yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Richard L. Allington. Pt. I. A framework for change. Redefining and reforming instructional support programs for at-risk students / Sean A. Walmsley and Richard L. Allington

Flunking: throwing good money after bad / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen

Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention / Philip C. Dyer and Ronald Binkney

Portfolios in the classroom: what happens when teachers and students negotiate assessment? / Laura P. Stowell and Robert J. Tierney. Pt. II. Case studies of school change. Literacy partnerships for change with "at-risk" kindergartners / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Ellen M. O'Connor

Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recovery: an educationally sound, cost-effective choice / Carol A. Lyons and Joetta Beaver

Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades / Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, and Patricia M. Cunningham

First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom / Barbara Taylor ... [et al.]

Scoring well on tests or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school / Trudy P. Walp and Sean A. Walmsley

Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down / Susan Carey Biggam, Nancy Teitelbaum, and Jan Willey

Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children: Chapter I schoolwide projects / Linda F. Winfield

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.

Redefining and reforming instructional support programs for at-risk students / Sean A. Walmsley, Richard L. Allington Flunking: throwing good money after bad / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention / Philip C. Dyer, Ronald Binkney Portfolios in the classroom: what happens when teachers and students negotiate assessment? / Laura P. Stowell, Robert J. Tierney

Literacy partnerships for change with "at-risk" kindergartners / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Ellen M. O'Connor Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recovery: an educationlly sound, cost-effective choice / Carol A. Lyons, Joetta Beaver Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades / Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, Patricia M. Cunningham First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom / Barbara Taylor...[et al.]

Scoring well on texts or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school / Trudy P. Walp, Sean A. Walmsley

Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down / Susan Carey Biggam, Nancy Teitelbaum, Jan Willey

Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children: chapter I schoolwide projects / Linda F. Winfield

The implementation of the accelerated school model in an urban elementary school / Stephanie L. Knight, Jane A. Stallings.