First, where is the research that shows support for system wide implementation of RtI?
This article is important because Wisconsin SLD legislation takes on a problem solving RtI approach.
So, disillusioned I stepped away three years ago because I feared RtI was becoming a bandwagon.
With just these two components framing the conversation about education, I understand why RtI and PBIS have gained in popularity.
The Fuchs et al (2003) article reviews research that examined implementing a problem solving RtI approach at a system wide level.
When I asked if RtI was a research-based model and what the research says about system wide application of RtI, I heard very little.
There was much unanswered and unaddressed RtI implementation concerns as well as what the outcome research was to show the superiority of the RtI framework.
With little large scale implementation studies and weak outcomes, what is the guarantee that RtI is really better or that it really does accelerate progress?
Last week it announced it was awarded a contract by RTI International to support development of a new synthetic gas technology, though the price was not revealed.
This could be achieved by working with law and policy makers and special interest groups to tailor FOIA or RTI in accordance with international standards and national needs.
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Anne Tumlinson of the consulting firm Avalere Health, Josh Wiener of RTI International and their co-authors found that mandatory insurance would be significantly less expensive than voluntary coverage.
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The study, by Josh Wiener and colleagues at the research firm RTI International, was based on a national survey that allowed them to follow thousands of people aged 50 and over for 10-12 years.
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Eric Finkelstein, a health economist at the nonprofit RTI Institute who has done extensive work with the Centers for Disease Control to measure the health costs of obesity, worries that there are no incentives for employers to deal with the expanding waistlines of their workers.
Finally, will we be having the same conversation about RtI in a few decades from now that people are having about the SLD discrepancy formula now since, similar to SLD discrepancy implementation, States can decide how to implement RtI and with RtI, each district in some states can implement it how they choose?
Reynolds and Shaywitz (2009) provides quite a scathing critique of RtI, particularly in saying there is not a lot of evidence to match the enthusiasm for RtI in terms of research support for RtI, ease of implementation, breadth of applications in the schools, and the ability of the RtI model to benefit children with learning disabilities.
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