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Preventing a Summer Slide in Reading -- The Effects of a Summer School
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Nicholson, Tom; Tiru, Shanthi – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
Researchers have found that summer reading loss contributes to the reading achievement gap between low and high socioeconomic (SES) children. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a 3-week summer intervention in addressing this slide for 36 low SES children compared with another 36 children in a matched control group from one New…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Reading Programs, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement
Why the New Zealand National Literacy Strategy Has Failed and What Can Be Done about It: Evidence from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 and Reading Recovery Monitoring Reports
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William E. Tunmer; James W. Chapman; Keith T. Greaney; Jane E. Prochnow; Alison W. Arrow – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2013
For the past 15 years, the New Zealand government has initiated major efforts to reduce persistently large inequities in achievement outcomes in literacy education, including the development of a national literacy strategy. The aim of this study was to provide an analysis of the factors that have contributed to the failure of this strategy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Public Policy, Educational Policy