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Balu, Rekha; Doolittle, Fred – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
The articles in this special issue discuss efforts to improve academic reading outcomes for students and ways to achieve high implementation fidelity of promising strategies. At times the authors discuss if--and how--strong fidelity is associated with strong outcomes and potentially even impacts (the difference between program and control group…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Reading Programs, Program Implementation, Reading Instruction
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Nolan, Carrie M.; Stitzlein, Sarah – Democracy & Education, 2016
The paper "Exploring Prosocial Behavior through Structured Philosophical Dialogue: A Quantitative Evaluation" ambitiously made the argument that a pedagogy grounded in dialogical inquiry as part of the Philosophy for Children program will positively affect incidents of bullying in schools. This response to the author's work includes a…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Bullying, Philosophy
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Waas, Margit – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Examines a sociolinguistic thesis on language attrition illustrating first-language (L1) loss in a second-language (L2) environment via interviews conducted with two control groups and L1 German speakers living in Australia. Findings reveal that after 10 to 20 years in the L2 environment, the extent of L1 attrition was such that none of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Control Groups, English (Second Language), German