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October 2007 | Volume 65 | Number 2
Marge Scherer
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The founder of Head Start talks about its early days and its long-term potential.
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Susan B. Neuman
How do we improve the academic prospects of the poor?
Robert E. Slavin, Anne Chamberlain and Cecelia Daniels
A reading intervention for middle schoolers can put the brakes on an imminent slide to failure.
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Ruth Curran Neild, Robert Balfanz and Liza Herzog
How to intercept distress signals and prevent students from dropping out.
Carol S. Dweck
Praising students' effort is more effective than praising inherent intelligence.
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How Response to Intervention works and why it is needed.
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Gerald Campano
One of the most powerful interventions of all is getting to know students.
Shobana Musti-Rao and Gwendolyn Cartledge
Strategies for explicitly teaching basic literacy skills.
Nancy C. Jordan
Why we need to assess children's early math difficulties.
Stephen Krashen and Jeff McQuillan
There are effective late interventions—and one of them is free reading.
Andrew Beaton
One day the principal decided not to let a student choose to fail, and that decision has made all the difference.
Cindy Foreman
Her son was floundering academically, and no one knew why.
Gene R. Carter
In a town in Israel, Arab and Jewish students study a rich curriculum.
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Finding the right book changed a 9th grader's life.
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