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Direct linkBoden, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This paper explores treatment effects in three different contexts: an extended school year pilot program in an urban school district, a library summer reading program serving twenty-one urban school districts, and states passing the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s and 1980s. Estimates generated using two years of intervention data along…
Descriptors: Extended School Year, Urban Schools, School Districts, Library Services
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Download full textBoulay, Beth; Goodson, Barbara; Frye, Michael; Blocklin, Michelle; Price, Cristofer – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2015
The Striving Readers program aimed to raise the literacy levels of middle and high school students reading below grade level and to build a strong research base on effective adolescent literacy interventions. This report summarizes the results of a systematic review of evaluations of the ten different interventions funded by the Striving Readers…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Dimitrov, Dimiter; Jurich, Sonia; Frye, Michael; Lammert, Jill; Sayko, Sarah; Taylor, Laura – RMC Research Corporation, 2012
The Illinois Striving Readers (ISR) Project had two purposes: (1) implement a supplemental reading intervention for students in ninth grade who were reading below grade level; and (2) study the impact of the intervention on students' performance on standardized assessments using a randomized control trial design. The Illinois Striving Readers…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Intervention, Secondary School Students
ANDRESEN, OLIVER S.; SMITH, HELEN K.
POTENTIAL BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED FROM PLANNED PURPOSEFUL READING INSTRUCTION WERE STUDIED. TWELVE PURPOSES WERE THEN SELECTED FOR PURPOSEFUL READING AT THE NINTH-GRADE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL. STUDENTS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND CONTROL GROUP WERE THEN SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF NEED FOR PURPOSEFUL READING INSTRUCTION. INDIVIDUALS IN THE CONTROL AND…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Program Evaluation, Reading, Reading Instruction
Olson, George E.; And Others – 1977
The five sections of this report present information about the evaluation of the Right to Read Project in Illinois for the 1976-77 school year. The first section provides background information about the national Right to Read effort and a history of the project in Illinois. The second section explains the purposes of the project evaluation,…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Program Evaluation, Reading Instruction
ROBBINS, MELVYN P. – 1965
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO MEASURE THE EFFECTS ON THE INTELLECTUAL, MATHEMATICAL, AND READING DEVELOPMENT OF RETARDED READERS RESULTING FROM TWO PROGRAMS--(1) A PROGRAM BASED ON DELACATO'S NEUROLOGICAL THEORY THAT AN INDIVIDUAL'S PERFORMANCE ABILITIES (SUCH AS READING) ARE FUNCTIONALLY RELATED TO HIS ANATOMICAL PROGRESS, AND (2) A…
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Mental Retardation, Neurological Impairments, Program Evaluation
Goodall, Robert C.; And Others – Illinois Journal of Education, 1970
Describes and evaluates the ESEA Title I program in Granite City (Illinois) target area schools which provide preschool classes, remedial reading, and supportive health and counseling services. The programs are considered to be efficient. (DM)
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Instructional Programs, Preschool Education, Program Descriptions
Conley, James L.; And Others – Illinois Journal of Education, 1970
Describes a Title I ESEA program for educationally deprived children in small town-rural areas in central Illinois. Program involves motor and perceptual development, improvement of self concept, attendance, and health. (DM)
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Educationally Disadvantaged, Instructional Programs, Program Descriptions
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2005
Evidence is mounting that federal employees and their agents may have directed or even pressured states to choose specific assessments, consultants, and the criteria for evaluating core reading programs as conditions for getting funding under the Reading First initiative, possibly in violation of federal law. "Education Week" found such…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Federal State Relationship, Professional Services, Audits (Verification)
Institute for the Development of Educational Auditing, Arlington, VA. – 1974
The Child Parent Education Centers, funded through Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, are administered by the Chicago Board of Education in areas characterized by a high density of low-income families. Approximately 2100 children, ages three through nine, are enrolled in the 11 centers which offer up to six years of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Health Programs, Kindergarten
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2007
To complement the information gathered on middle school and high school literacy initiatives as reported in "Middle and High School Literacy across the Curriculum" (Task 1.2 Fast Response Project), the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast (REL-SE) staff conducted a scan of the six southeast states to gather the following information…
Descriptors: Evidence, Primary Education, Literacy, State Policy
Schwartz, Henrietta S.; And Others – 1976
A comprehensive assessment of Right to Read programs in Illinois is provided in this final report. The chapter headed "Purposes of the Report" includes a description of the development of evaluation rationale and design, presentation of findings and products, and format for provision of conclusions, implications, and recommendations.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Design, Program Development
Guzzetti, Barbara J., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society. We are impacted by literature during our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. "Literacy for the New Millennium" includes information from specialists in the field who discuss the influence of popular culture, media, and technology on…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents, Literacy Education
