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Sell, John B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Faced with meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, schools are under pressure to have 100% of their students meet national standards in reading by 2014. For the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, Sussex Technical High School (STHS) in Georgetown, Delaware chose to adopt Read Right, a reading comprehension improvement…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension, Program Effectiveness, Program Length
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Xu, Xiaoqiu; Padilla, Amado M.; Silva, Duarte – Language Learning Journal, 2014
This study compared two groups of high school students in their learning of a third-year Mandarin level 3 class under two conditions: an intensive four-week (85.5 hours) summer program and a 22-week (88 hours) regular semester program. Students in both conditions had been classmates through four semesters of Mandarin instruction and had similar…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Summer Programs