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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.
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