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Matthew Koziol – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Mandatory grade retention for poor-performing readers has been a disputed practice for decades. Since the early-2000s, state-level mandatory grade retention policies have proliferated. In 18 states and Washington, D.C. mandatory grade retention exists for students in the third-grade who fail an end-of-year standardized reading exam. These policies…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Grade Repetition, Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness
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Loveless, Tom – Education Next, 2020
Education standards do not flop spectacularly. Their failure gives rise to nothing like the black-and-white films of early aeronautical experiments: no missiles exploding on launch pads or planes tumbling from the sky. But 10 years after 46 of the 50 states adopted the Common Core standards, the lack of evidence that they have improved student…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Academic Standards, Failure, Educational Policy
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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Petrilli, Michael J.; Loveless, Tom – Education Next, 2020
The Common Core State Standards, released in 2010, were rapidly adopted by more than 40 states. Champions maintained that these rigorous standards would transform American education, but the initiative went on to encounter a bumpy path. A decade on, what are we to make of this ambitious effort? What kind of impact, if any, has it had on the…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, National Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
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Ring, Jeremiah J.; Barefoot, Lexie C.; Avrit, Karen J.; Brown, Sasha A.; Black, Jeffrey L. – Remedial and Special Education, 2013
The important role of reading fluency in the comprehension and motivation of readers is well documented. Two reading rate intervention programs were compared in a cluster-randomized clinical trial of students who were considered at-risk for reading failure. One program focused instruction at the word level; the second program focused instruction…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, Reading Difficulties
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Vasquez, Eleazar, III; Slocum, Timothy A. – Exceptional Children, 2012
This study examined the effects of online reading instruction for at-risk fourth-grade students in Philadelphia. The authors used a multiple baseline design to assess the extent to which the students increased their oral reading rate given systematic supplemental online reading instruction. Tutoring consisted of 4 sessions per week with 50-min…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, At Risk Students
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Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Lam, Shui-fong – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors examined cultural differences in parents' responses to their children's performance. In Study 1 (N=421), Chinese 5th graders reported that their parents de-emphasized their academic success and emphasized their academic failure, whereas their American counterparts reported that their parents did the opposite. This partially accounted…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 4, Grade 5, Cultural Differences
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Gregory, Anne E. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2005
The purpose of this study was to contribute to and strengthen previous work that examined the long-lasting effects of Reading Recovery in statewide efforts aimed at bolstering early literacy achievement and reducing early learning difficulties. Specifically, the study explored the literacy achievement of Reading Recovery participants whose series…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Failure, Prevention, Reading Programs
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Ruhe, Valerie; Paula, Moore – ERS Spectrum, 2005
Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention for first-grade children with reading and writing difficulties. This longitudinal study investigated the performance of a cohort of 1998 Reading Recovery students on later literacy achievement as measured by the 2001 Grade 4 Maine Educational Assessment (MEA). The results showed that the average MEA…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Grade 4
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2003
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (a) to explore the nature of elementary school children's metacognitive knowledge of strategies appropriate for before, during, and after reading; and (b) to determine whether children who had participated in Reading Recovery instruction in the first grade had similar understandings as their current third-…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Failure, Reading Strategies, Metacognition