Robert Slavin, Who Studied How Children Learn, Dies at 70
He favored phonics to teach reading and grouping students with different aptitudes rather than by age or grade.
The education professor Robert Slavin in an undated photo. He was an early proponent of cooperative learning, an approach through which small teams of students with different academic abilities worked together. Credit.Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University
May 11, 2021
Robert E. Slavin, a sociologist whose rigorous research into how children learn helped shift the emphasis in classrooms across the country toward teaching reading through phonics, mixing students of different aptitudes rather than educating them on separate tracks, and testing them for vision and other factors that could affect their education, died on April 24 in Baltimore. He was 70.
To catch students up, don t remediate. Accelerate.
To counteract the learning loss associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, one School of Education expert is urging schools to keep students working at grade level rather than repeating lessons they may have missed. By Andrew Myers / Published May 6, 2021
The nation s growing concern over the accumulated student learning loss during COVID-19 is even more acute with respect to low-income communities. These students seldom have the necessary technologies to succeed in an online learning environment; similarly, their school systems often lack resources to prepare teachers for effective online pedagogical practices.
While education experts recognize the challenge to help students catch up to grade-level mastery, there is less agreement about what to do to make that happen. The common practice in the United States has been to try to take student backwards and teach them the missed skills from
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Alison Kiselich is a teacher at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs. She has fully embraced the school s efforts to create community with families through the Parent Teacher Home Visit project.
Before the pandemic hit, staff at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs wanted to form deeper connections with their students and families many of whom are in low income households. So, while sticking with traditional parent teacher conferences, they also began meeting with kids and parents in the students homes.
Alison Kiselich is a special education teacher at Mitchell. On top of switching back and forth from in-person to virtual learning due to COVID-19, Kiselich has continued to reach out to her students outside of the classroom.
Robert Slavin, global authority on education research and evidence-based school reform, dies at 70
He is remembered for the lives he changed through his Success for All Foundation and his dedication to meaningful education reform in America By Andrew Myers / Published April 26, 2021
Robert E. Slavin, a noted education researcher, the first-ever Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Research and Reform in Education, died Saturday, April 24, of a heart attack. He was 70.
Slavin was a preeminent researcher at the School of Education and a globally recognized figure in the field. His personal mantra was a continual emphasis on evidence-based research as the driver of school reforms across the country a phrase he often simplified as what works in education. Slavin was among a handful of education experts known by name worldwide. He was sought out regularly to testi
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