Success by Eight

The goal of Success by Eight is to ensure that every student reaches a high level of competence in the basic skills by age 8, or by third grade. Success by Eight may mean ungraded instruction for students between the ages of 5 and 8. Students will be grouped and regrouped for different types of instruction. Each student will receive the instruction he or she needs at any time to move into the next level of learning. Teachers and other adults in schools will be redeployed to provide the individual attention each student needs but without substantially increasing student-teacher ratios.

This reconfiguration of time, staffing, and grade levels makes learning more efficient and effective by creating multiage classes and "looping" classes. (The same teacher works with a group of students through two or more grades.)