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SEP-03-1998 17:58
OFC OF THE DEP SECY
202 401 9027
P.06/09
Extra support for students and staff
More reading
Extra classes, tutoring
Summer S.T.A.R.S.
and math
Many schools have established
Many students are years
Students in every elementary
Saturday Academies and before-
behind where they should be and
classroom are learning reading,
and after-school programs for
need extra help to catch up. We
writing. speaking and listening
students needing extra help.
expect our Summer S.T.A.R.S.
(what we call literacy skills) for at
Contact your local principal to
(Students and Teachers Achieving
least 90 minutes a day and math
see if your school is providing
Results and Success) program to
for at least 60 minutes. In sec-
this extra help.
serve up to 20,000 students.
ondary school, teachers in all
They will receive intensive
subjects - from social studies to
Our Everybody Reads literacy
instruction in reading and math
industrial arts - have been
campaign is recruiting adults from
for six weeks. The idea is not to
instructed to teach reading as part
throughout the city to tutor
punish these students but to give
of every course. Our goal is to
second-graders in reading.
them the extra help they need.
offer double periods of reading
Common sense and research show
that children who read well can
Contact:
and math to high school students
Summer S.T.A.R.S.,
who are behind.
learn anything - whether it's
724-4400
algebra or African-American his-
Contact:
tory. We're working closely with
Office of Teaching
similar tutoring programs, such as
and Learning, 576-6171
Everybody Wins and DC Reads.
Contact:
Literacy Program,
724-4235
"We're off to a good start -
the elimination of social promotion
in the elementary schools,
A school system driven by high
the promise to have
standards expects all students to succeed
- but not all at the same speed. Some
reading teachers in schools
students will need more time and assistance
than others. Some students might be strong in
and stronger math classes
math and weak in reading. Once testing has
in high schools.
pinpointed these strengths and weaknesses,
teachers and principals are in a much
But there is still much to be done.
better position to target support
where it's needed.
Alieze Stallworth, parent,
Lafayette Elementary. Jefferson Junior High, Coolidge Senior High
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