Guides Non-Classroom (055)-- Opinion Papers (120)

Schools and districts across the country have long been focused on ensuring that students succeed in life and participate effectively in society. With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, efforts to realize this goal for all students have intensified. Though many children are successfully meeting state and local academic standards, others are not. To improve learning for all students, teachers and school leaders need information and guidance about evidence-based strategies that can assist students who are not meeting standards. In the summer and fall of 2002, McREL conducted a synthesis of recent research on strategies to assist students during the school day who are low achieving or at risk of failure. The resulting work was based on an extensive search and review of published and unpublished studies and qualitative as well as quantitative research. From this synthesis of research, McREL identified six general classroom strategies, which are reviewed in a condensed form in this edition o