Success For All

Another solution to closing the opportunity gap and raising achievement in urban city schools is through curricular and instructional interventions. The program “Success for all” (SFA) seems to be one of the most effective in improving the outcome of urban student’s achievement. (Jacob, Ludwig) SFA offers a variety of components that are beneficial and needed to raise urban children’s achievement such as, an early learning program, reading roots (A reading program that integrates phonics with meaning), reading wings (a program based on a school's existing novels, anthologies, or basals, which emphasizes improvement of strategic reading and comprehension skills), one to one tutoring, family support, a facilitator, and professional development. (What Makes Success for All so Successful) This program operates in more than 1200 high poverty schools and has been shown to be effective (Jacob, Ludwig) “A random assignment evaluation of SFA documented that at the end of three years, students in the treatment schools scored roughly 0.2 standard deviations higher than students in the control schools on a standardized reading assessment, a difference equivalent to about one-fifth of the gap between low and high socioeconomic-status children” (Jacob, Ludwig) Success for All has also been successful by reducing the likeliness of students being enrolled in special education …show more content…
(Slavin, Maddin 2013) The program was on the way towards great success, until the Bush administration put it on a halt due to the opposition to comprehensive school reform. This reduced the number of SFA schools in half, but the program is growing again today and assisted under the Investing in Innovation grant. (Slavin, Maddin 2013) SFA requires many changes in the school, such as a change in curriculum and