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Download full textNEGP Monthly, 1999
This issue of a monthly serial publication of the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP), which is available only online in PDF Format, examines efforts underway in Colorado, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland to increase student achievement in reading (related to Goal 3 of the NEGP). After an overview, it discusses Colorado's efforts to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Professional Development, Reading Achievement
Weiss, Suzanne – Progress of Education Reform 1999-2001, 1999
Research shows that children who are not proficient readers by the end of third grade perform poorly in other subjects and have difficulties throughout the course of their schooling. The knowledge exists to teach all but a small percentage of students to become proficient readers. Despite this knowledge, a troubling number of children do not learn…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Successful Reading Instruction: Reports and Recommendations from a National Invitational Conference.
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – LSS Review, 2002
Within the context of President Bush's Reading First and Early Reading First initiatives to improve early literacy skills for preschool children and reading literacy skills for primary children, a national invitational conference on successful reading instruction was held in Washington, DC, on November 12-13, 2001. It focused on determining how…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy, Preschool Education, Primary Education
Good, Roland H., III; Kaminski, Ruth A.; Simmons, Deborah; Kame'enui, Edward J. – OSSC Bulletin, 2001
The importance of all children achieving adequate reading outcomes by the end of third grade cannot be overstated. Awareness is growing nationwide of the dividends of early reading success and the dire consequences of early reading failure. Schools need a prevention-oriented assessment and intervention system to prevent reading difficulties from…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Outcomes of Education
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum For Reading: The Journal for College Reading Improvement, 1980
This issue of "Forum for Reading" contains four essays of interest to reading instructors at two-year colleges. Joan Gregg, Beth Pacheco, and Serena Nanda discuss the benefits for students of providing thematic unity in reading courses. The essay considers the selection of a theme, such as rebellion, identity, or family, that will lend…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Attitude Measures, Basic Skills, Questioning Techniques
