Could Intensive Education Rescue Struggling Readers? by Robert E. Slavin

Could Intensive Education Rescue Struggling Readers?
Robert E. Slavin
Long, long ago, I heard about a really crazy idea. Apparently, a few private high schools were trying a scheduling plan in which instead of having students take all of their subjects every day, they would take one subject at a time for a month or six weeks. The idea was that with a total concentration on one subject, and no time lost in changing classes, students could make astonishing progress. At the end of each week, they could see the progress they'd made, really feel learning happening.
 
However, in these awful days, with schools nationwide closing for months due to Covid, I was thinking about a way to use a similar concept with students who have fallen far behind, or actually with any students who are far behind grade level for any reason. What if students who were far behind could enroll in a six-week intensive service designed to teach them to read no matter what? They would attend an intensive class, perhaps all day, in which they receive a promise: this time, you'll make it.

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