No quick fix / Allington, Richard L

Includes: A Framework for Change - Redefining and reforming instructional support programs for at risk students - Flunking throwing good money after bad - Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention - Portfolios in the classroom: what happens when teachers and students negotiate assessment? --- Case Studies of School Change - Literacy partnerships for change with "at-risk" kindergartners - Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recovery: an educationally sound cost-effective choice - Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades - First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom - Scoring well on tests or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school - Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down - Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children - The implementation of the accelerated school model in an urban elementary school - No quick fix: where do we go from here?.

Offers teachers, principals, administrators, and policymakers an overview of proven models, programs, and strategies for improving student literacy.