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Francine Falk-Ross; Kathleen A. Gormley; Peter McDermott – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2024
There exist passionate debates about the best way to teach children to read. Since the Bush administration, school districts receiving federal funds have been required to have research evidence justifying their methods of teaching reading, and in recent years the need for evidence-based practices have intensified with the "Science of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Programs, Selection Criteria, Educational Trends
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2023
Up until 2020, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores had increased only slightly since the early 1990s with large achievement gaps for students of color and students living in poverty. Modest gains in fourth grade reading proficiency since 1992 were erased during the pandemic. The insufficient progress in reading even…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Scores
Taylor Harrington – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is a significant lack of students in Tennessee who are reading at a proficient level. According to the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment data, nationally only 37% of fourth grade students are reading at a proficient level. Specifically, in the state of Tennessee, only 35% of fourth graders scored in…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Grade 4
Foorman, Barbara R. – National Comprehensive Center, 2020
The disappointing results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress--a dip in trajectory of reading proficiency for all students except those at the highest level of ability--are prompting states to consider new reading-related policies and actions. In "State Policy Levers for Improving Literacy," Barbara Foorman describes…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Literacy Education, National Competency Tests
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Woods, LaToshia; Graham, Karen Kleppe – SRATE Journal, 2020
Determining what elementary teacher candidates need to know to effectively teach reading will aid in how preparation programs prepare future teachers. To understand state legislation targeting early reading instruction, this study compared the tenets of structured literacy, the reading method used in dyslexia programs, to scientific reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Dyslexia, Intervention, Elementary School Teachers
Marino, Tracey L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The existence of an achievement gap in the academic performance among various subgroups of students is a well-documented phenomenon in American public education (Blackford & Khojasteh, 2013; "Education Week," 2004; Hayes & Grether, 1969; Hernandez, 2011; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015). This is certainly the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, At Risk Students
Afterschool Alliance, 2015
The Afterschool Alliance, in partnership with Dollar General Literacy Foundation, is proud to present this issue brief examining the vital role afterschool programs play to build students' literacy skills. This issue brief will explore the additional support needed to help students with their reading, writing and critical thinking skills, as well…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Literacy Education, Reading Skills, Reading Programs
Houston Independent School District, 2015
Literacy By 3 is a comprehensive, literacy initiative implemented in Houston Independent School District's (HISD's) kindergarten- through fifth-grade classrooms during the 2014-2015 school year. Literacy By 3 is a combination of six reading strategies: (1) guided reading; (2) reading to self (independent or silent sustained reading); (3) read to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, School Districts
Quint, Janet; Zhu, Pei; Balu, Rekha; Rappaport, Shelley; DeLaurentis, Micah – MDRC, 2015
Success for All (SFA), one of the best-known school reform models, aims to improve the reading skills of all children but is especially directed at schools that serve large numbers of students from low-income families. First implemented in 1987, SFA combines a challenging reading program, whole-school reform elements, and an emphasis on continuous…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Change, Program Implementation, Reading Instruction
Quint, Janet; Zhu, Pei; Balu, Rekha; Rappaport, Shelley; DeLaurentis, Micah – MDRC, 2015
Success for All (SFA), one of the best-known school reform models, aims to improve the reading skills of all children but is especially directed at schools that serve large numbers of students from low-income families. First implemented in 1987, SFA combines a challenging reading program, whole-school reform elements, and an emphasis on continuous…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Change, Program Implementation, Reading Instruction
Tennessee Department of Education, 2017
The Read to be Ready campaign emerged from the startling reality of Tennessee's reading achievement data. Only one-third of Tennessee fourth graders scored proficient in the last administration of National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in 2015. Equally concerning, students who fell behind in the early years almost never caught up in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, At Risk Students, Reading Comprehension
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Hauptli, Meghan V.; Cohen-Vogel, Lora – American Journal of Education, 2013
This article examines the federal role in adolescent literacy from its roots in Lyndon B. Johnson's administration with the Economic Opportunity Act (1964) through the Reading for Understanding grants of 2010. The authors consider the extent to which the recent attention to and changes in the federal approach to adolescent literacy can be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Federal Government, Government Role
Haynes, Mariana – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2015
Noting that 60 percent of both fourth and eighth graders currently struggle with reading, this report urges the U.S. Congress to focus on students' literacy development from early childhood through grade twelve as it works to rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
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Snow, Catherine E.; Matthews, Timothy J. – Future of Children, 2016
How does literacy develop in children's early years, and what programs or practices promote adequate literacy for all children? These are the questions Catherine Snow and Timothy Matthews tackle in this article. Fundamental literacy skills can be grouped into two categories, Snow and Matthews write. The first category is "constrained"…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Reading Skills, Vocabulary Development
National Assessment Governing Board, 2015
The reading framework for the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) presents the assessment's conceptual base and discusses its content. The framework describes the types of texts and questions that should be included in the assessment, as well as how the questions should be designed and scored. This report provides highlights of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Critical Reading, National Competency Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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