Research shows that when a full - service school works well, student achievement increases, attendance rates go up, suspensions drop, and
special education placements decrease (Dryfoos, 1994; Dryfoos & Maguire, 2002).
That year, Slavin found, the Success for All students had much better reading scores than students not in the program, and
special education placements decreased.
Not exact matches
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as
decreased grade retention and
special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.
There is near universal consensus that quality preschool benefits children, increasing the chance of graduation, higher earnings, and
decreasing placement in
special education, involvement in the criminal justice system and the need for other social services.
In Northville, MI he developed a model which
decreased the need for
special education placement and saved millions of dollars each year for the district.