RTI May Fall Short in Flagging Certain Students

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Fri, 2017-04-21 18:00
There is a method out there to help flag students who are having a hard time academically. It is called the RTI model. But as the model is being used, students are not reaping the benefits of the process. The use of the model is to target students who need more assistance with school work.

As a method of organizing efforts to help students who are struggling academically, response to intervention has seen widespread adoption.

The problem with the RTI model is that schools were not told how the process should work. Evidently causing failures in the model and students not getting the help they need. According to a school official one of the reason the model does not work because school districts are not communicating with each other.
As a method of organizing efforts to help students who are struggling academically, response to intervention has seen widespread adoption. But as an improved method of identifying students with learning disabilities, RTI shows far less clear benefits, researchers are finding.
~ Education Week

Key Takeaways:

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Even as schools try to improve their equality in education, they fall short.
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RTI is a way to diagnose a student as well as apply specialized learning to the student.
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Researchers find that RTI is not accurate when it comes to learning struggles.
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