Looks at the essentials of programs for at-risk students and describes an actual program that exemplifies each essential. (SR)

Describes the Reading Recovery program, how children are identified for the program, and program implementation. Discusses questions about, and criticisms of, the program. (RS)

Describes New Zealand's successful "Transition Education" program for at-risk, low-achieving secondary students, which helps students make the transition from school to adulthood. (SR)

This information sheet (the third in a new government series published for teachers, parents, and others interested in current education themes) offers a brief overview of Reading Recovery, an early intervention program to help low-achieving 6-year-olds learn to read. The information sheet discusses what Reading Recovery is, what its components…

The Virginia Education Association and the Appalachia Educational Laboratory jointly sponsored a group of six educators to study descriptions of over 100 programs for at-risk students in Virginia public schools. The group developed a Survey of Programs for At-Risk Students that called for an extensive program description and mailed the survey to…

Describes an in-school suspension program based on a literacy-enhancement model (rather than a punitive model). Describes how students used prewriting activities both as a cognitive activity and as a reflection tool for self-monitoring of behavior, often helping them work through problems and replace inappropriate behavior with appropriate…

The Chapter 1 reading and math program in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, is designed to meet the needs of educationally disadvantaged kindergarten through eighth-grade students at 11 project sites. Each of the identified 1,972 participating students receives approximately 50 minutes of direct supplemental reading and/or math instruction 5 days…

Describes the EEXCEL project, a tutoring/housing project in blight-stricken south central Los Angeles. Shows how the combination of private business, education, and caring individuals demonstrated how easy it is to give hope, to give a future, to at-risk children. (RS)

A University of North Carolina (Charlotte) program provides tutorial services to students in certain high-risk courses. Participants from 1988-89 earned higher final grades and had fewer lower grades and withdrawals than nonparticipants, despite lower predicted academic potential and industriousness at the time of college entry. (Author/MSE)

"Reading Recovery"[R] is a short-term tutoring intervention program intended to serve the lowest achieving (bottom 20%) first-grade students. Students are chosen for "Reading Recovery"[R] by school staff, and selection is based on prior reading achievement, diagnostic testing (the Clay Observation Survey of Early Literacy…

Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, California, provides special academic support for its provisionally admitted students through its Program Quick Start, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project involving the fields of literature and biology. The fully accredited college provides higher education in the liberal arts and preparation for…

"Skills for Adolescence," a program for middle and junior high schools, includes (1) increased parent involvement; (2) inservice training for classroom teachers; (3) service learning opportunities for students; (4) community partnerships with schools; and (5) teaching students skills in critical thinking, problem solving, and goal…

Provides an overview of "ElectroText," a program to develop electronically enhanced versions of short stories for use in middle school language arts programs for at-risk students. Describes the setting and instructional context, the strategies used to gather information about what students did when they read in a hypertext environment,…

Demonstrates how a school-based mental health program helps create a caring alternative high school, based on data gathered by shadowing students; interviewing students, teachers, staff, and counselors; reviewing documents; and observing group-counseling sessions. Findings indicate that counseling allows students to experience caring, when…

A Tucson, Arizona elementary school is one of 45 development sites for the Toyota Families in Schools Program, which brings in parents to learn alongside their children and in their own classrooms for 4 hours daily. Parents also receive vocational instruction aligned with local job opportunities. (MLH)