Success for All
Encyclopedia
Success for All refers to standards-based
Comprehensive School Reform
curricula for early childhood
through middle school
, produced by the nonprofit organization
Success for All Foundation (SFAF).
Success for All is a reading program that was started in one Baltimore school in 1987 [1]. By September 2000, Success for All served more than 1,800 schools and served about a million children [1]. Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Montgomery, Fort Wayne, Little Rock, Tucson, Riverside and Modesto [1] are some of the school districts who tried the Success for All program. The creators of this program believe that every child should be able to read, unless they have some sort of organic retardation [2]. The goal of the program is to actively seek early elementary students who struggle as readers and to do every possible intervention to improve their reading skills before they get discouraged. Success for All is influenced by the Title I program that believes in preventing failure of any reader by creating successful preschool and kindergarten curriculum for reading. Early intervention means that supplementary instructional services are provided early in students’ schooling and that they are intensive enough to bring at-risk students quickly to a level at which they can profit from high quality classroom instruction
's book, The Shame of the Nation, as excessively dogmatic, utilitarian, and authoritarian.
Standards-based education reform
Education reform in the United States since the 1980s has been largely driven by the setting of academic standards for what students should know and be able to do. These standards can then be used to guide all other system components. The SBE reform movement calls for clear, measurable standards...
Comprehensive School Reform
Comprehensive School Reform
The Comprehensive School Reform program is administered by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education....
curricula for early childhood
Early childhood education
Early childhood education is the formal teaching and care of young children by people other than their family or in settings outside of the home. 'Early childhood' is usually defined as before the age of normal schooling - five years in most nations, though the U.S...
through middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
, produced by the nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
Success for All Foundation (SFAF).
Success for All is a reading program that was started in one Baltimore school in 1987 [1]. By September 2000, Success for All served more than 1,800 schools and served about a million children [1]. Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Montgomery, Fort Wayne, Little Rock, Tucson, Riverside and Modesto [1] are some of the school districts who tried the Success for All program. The creators of this program believe that every child should be able to read, unless they have some sort of organic retardation [2]. The goal of the program is to actively seek early elementary students who struggle as readers and to do every possible intervention to improve their reading skills before they get discouraged. Success for All is influenced by the Title I program that believes in preventing failure of any reader by creating successful preschool and kindergarten curriculum for reading. Early intervention means that supplementary instructional services are provided early in students’ schooling and that they are intensive enough to bring at-risk students quickly to a level at which they can profit from high quality classroom instruction
Criticism
The Success for All program is critiqued in Jonathan KozolJonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...
's book, The Shame of the Nation, as excessively dogmatic, utilitarian, and authoritarian.