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Grisham, Dana L. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2008
Research has identified certain comprehension strategies that seem to work in an optimal manner to increase the reading comprehension of K-12 students. However, little evidence exists about whether teachers use identified, research-based strategies when teaching. In view of the critical nature of literacy achievement for diverse populations and…
Descriptors: Credentials, Graduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Consultants
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Quatroche, Diana J.; Bean, Rita M.; Hamilton, Rebecca L. – Reading Teacher, 2001
Address the development of a literature review that summarizes what educators know about the role of the reading specialist and the various roles that reading specialists assume. Examines journals in the field of reading research and instruction, government documents, technical reports, and ERIC documents that related to the role of the reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Program Effectiveness, Reading Consultants
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1994
These hearing transcripts present testimony concerning the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which since 1965 has provided the bulk of federal aid to elementary and secondary schools and related programs. Much of the testimony was from Michigan school administrators, teachers, and educational specialists who…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Askov, Eunice N.; Dupuis, Mary M. – 1981
As part of the work from the Content Area Reading Project (CARP), which focuses on inservice teacher education in content area reading, a study examined the effects of an inservice content area reading program that involved two three-hour workshops per month on the theory and practical application of teaching methods for content area reading…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education