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Valri Leonie Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There have been many innovations targeting literacy teaching and learning in small countries such as Jamaica, but changes to literacy teaching practices are rarely sustained beyond the life of the initial projects. The purpose of this study was to understand teachers' rationale for changes to literacy teaching practices that were and were not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Tablet Computers
Brown-Wyatt, Valencia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Under No Child Left Behind Act 2001, the Reading First initiative was a component geared toward strengthening literacy skills in schools that were in need of improvement. Despite the intervention attempts through this initiative, research shows that students continue to struggle in literacy, which widens the achievement gap in urban school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Literacy Education