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Stockard, Jean – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2011
Reviews of research on rural education suggest that identifying ways to help rural schools improve teachers' pedagogical skills should be a high priority. This article addresses this issue by examining changes in reading skills through the primary grades of students in three rural, Midwestern districts that occurred after the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Effect Size
Joseph, Kelly C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Schools have become more diverse; the number of English Language Learners has increased from two million in 1993-94 to over four million in 2006 (Echevarria, Vogt, and Short, 2001). Most English Language Learners in U.S. schools are of Latino descent. Recent national tests of reading and writing (i.e., the National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Curriculum Design, Reading Fluency, Corrective Reading