Providing Effective Schooling for Students at Risk

Gay Su Pinell

Gay Su Pinell, professor of education at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, discusses why early intervention is critical to the success of Reading Recovery. Excerpted from the videotape Collaborations in Education: Reading Recovery (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1994).

"We want to interview at the critical time when the child is highly motivated and is not felt the way to failure, and we want to interview before the gap becomes too wide. We also don't want children to practice ineffective strategies for long periods of time and not feel successful with them."

This Critical Issue was researched and written by Mary Ann Costello, a free-lance writer, based on an outline and comments submitted by John H. Hollifield, associate director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR), and Lynn Stinnette, director of Center for School and Community Development at the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

Date posted: 1996