Ad lit.org: Re Conceptualizing Extra Help for High School Students

The push to ensure all students engage in challenging classes in high school has created new demands on high schools, including a demand to providing extra help for students who are behind in reading, mathematics, and advanced reasoning skills. This report looks at the nature of the extra help schools must provide and argues that the old model of offering only three types of extra help - functional skills for students deemed to have limited futures, remedial instruction in elementary skills; or tutoring for students struggling to pass a course or improve their test scores - must be abandoned and replaced by interventions that support and accelerate the development of intermediate and even more advanced skills.