Dick Lugar: “Success for All is an exemplary research-based reform program. I have spent time with Dr. Slavin, who developed this…”

“Success for All is an exemplary research-based reform program. I have spent time with Dr. Slavin, who developed this program at Johns Hopkins, and I have been visiting Success for All schools in Indiana. The results in these schools are so promising that I have written to every superintendent in Indiana urging them to take a look at the program. The discipline and accountability of Success for All greatly reduce the possibility that students will fail. By teaching children to read in the early grades, our schools can avoid holding students back, promoting them with insufficient ability or transferring them out of the normal curriculum to special education courses. Referrals to special education in Success for All schools have been shown to decrease by approximately 50 percent. In schools where Success for All is taught, students learn to read by the end of the third grade. By the fifth grade, students in these schools are often testing a full grade level ahead of students in other schools.”