The Benefits and Costs of Head Stai and commentaries

Mathematics Education for Young Children: What It is and How to Promote It

“…American mathematics education at all levels requires improvement, if not radical reform. Part of the solution may lie in effective early education, which has been shown to provide a foundation for later academic success (Bowman, Donovan, & Burns, 2001;Campbell, Pungello, Miller-Johnson, Burchinal, & Ramey, 2001;Reynolds & Ou, 2003), especially in the short term (Gormley, 2007) and arguably in the years thereafter (Ludwig & Phillips, 2007). Early education may even be seen as a good fi nancial investment, resulting in economic benefi ts over the long term (Heckman, 2000).…”

A Diagnostic Teaching Intervention for Classroom Teachers: Helping Struggling Readers in Early Elementary School

“…Although the studies on individualizing instruction have been important in understanding what strategies may be most important for particular groups of children, there has not been much research that has demonstrated that the classroom teacher can employ strategies at the Tier II level of “The RtI” (Gersten & Dimino, 2006; Speece, Case & Molloy, 2003). Only one recent study (Scanlon, Gelzheiser, Vellutino, Schatschneider, & Sweeney, 2008) has shown that classroom teachers can be successful in helping at risk children and this study emphasized the instructional match as critical to the success of the intervention approach.…”

Evidence‐Based Programming in the Context of Practice and Policy and commentaries

“…For many years, Congress voted to increase the number of children who could participate in Head Start, now the nation's largest direct service to young children, but it did not fund evaluations or other research on the program's effectiveness. When the program came up for reauthorization nearly a decade ago, there was little information on its effectiveness (this has now changed; see Ludwig & Phillips, 2007;Puma, Bell, Cook, Heid, Lopez, Zill, et al, 2005).…”