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Success for All: The Impact of Research-Proven Cooperative Learning Strategies

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Philanthropy and Education

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Success for All is a whole-school reform model that includes a reading, writing, and oral language development programme for students from prekindergarten through to high school, with particular emphasis on schools in low-income areas in the United States. Success for All started in 1987 as a reading programme for elementary school children, developed and delivered by scholars at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the state of Maryland. The goal of the programme was to demonstrate how schools can ensure that all their children can read and write. Classroom reading instruction is delivered in daily 90-minute blocks to students grouped by reading ability. Immediate intervention with tutors, who are certified teachers, is given each day to those students who are having difficulty reading at the same level as their classmates. Although originally focused on reading instruction, Success for All is a school-wide, comprehensive programme that includes professional development for teachers, parent involvement, comparative student assessment and student assessment based programme evaluation.

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Schröer, A. (2014). Success for All: The Impact of Research-Proven Cooperative Learning Strategies. In: Thümler, E., Bögelein, N., Beller, A., Anheier, H.K. (eds) Philanthropy and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326256_7

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