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Garret J. Hall; Peter M. Nelson; David C. Parker – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
School context can shape relative intervention response in myriad ways due to factors, such as instructional quality, resource allocation, peer effects, and correlations between the school context and characteristics of enrolled students (e.g., higher-poverty students attending higher-poverty schools). In the current study, we used data from…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Reading Achievement, Intervention, Reading Instruction
McDaniel, Sara C.; McLeod, Ragan; Carter, Coddy L.; Robinson, Cecil – Reading Psychology, 2017
Summer reading loss is a prevalent problem that occurs primarily for students who are not exposed to or encouraged to read at home or in summer programs when school is out. This problem prevails among early readers from low-income backgrounds. This study provided 31 six and seven-year-old children with a structured guided reading program through…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Summer Programs, Maintenance, Young Children
McKie, Brooke K.; Manswell Butty, Jo-Anne; Green, Rodney D. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Researchers have posited that children generally learn to read in environments that are trusting, comfortable, and offer small group or one-to-one adult support, all of which are characteristics of a high quality early childhood education program. This evaluation research study examines the Pre-Kindergarten Incentive Program, an early childhood…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Demonstration Programs, Young Children, Kindergarten
Bilby, Sheila Beachum – Mott Mosaic, 2002
Community-driven school reform is receiving greater attention now as communities become more closely involved with their schools. One such program is a grassroots, faith-based organization called People Acting for Community Together (PACT). PACT is one of about 150 community-organizing groups nationwide that have worked to improve student learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation
Ackerman, Marji – Teaching Pre K-8, 2004
Learning to read is a major milestone and should be an event to celebrate. The author of this article relates the story of how, with the encouragement of her principal, and the help of a children's librarian at the public library, the community coordinator at a nearby Barnes and Noble, and a children's book buyer at a local independent book store,…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Elementary School Students, Librarians, Reading Programs

Vadasy, Patricia F.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
A study of 17 first-graders identified at high risk for a reading disability investigated the effects of community tutors on reading performance. When compared to the performance of matched controls, the children performed better on spelling and segmentation but not on reading. Skills declined at the second-grade follow-up evaluation. (CR)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Early Intervention, Grade 1, High Risk Students

Moll, Luis C.; Dias, Stephen – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1987
In two case studies instructional conditions constrained what working class Hispanic students and their teachers accomplished. Certain instructional arrangements ensnare linguistic minority students by not capitalizing fully on their social, linguistic, and intellectual resources. Community based research sites can help to develop the appropriate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Programs, Cultural Differences
Fleisher, Barbara M.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1990
The paper describes a successful effort at collaboration among a college reading program, a neighborhood self-help agency, and a public school. The three-way partnership was formed to improve the literacy levels of 12 behaviorally disturbed children in the fifth and sixth grades. The project involves whole language reading instruction and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, College Programs, College School Cooperation