In February 2016, the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) pulled together stakeholders from across the state and set an ambitious goal--that at least 75 percent of third graders would be proficient readers by 2025. The goal originated from both stagnant third grade reading scores in the state and national research indicating that third grade…

The purpose of this report is to provide formative and summative feedback to the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) regarding evidence of implementation and impact for the Interventions for Reading Difficulties Pilot Program. The report, while addressing the effects of the Interventions for Reading Difficulties Pilot Program, is also designed to…

Minnesota Reading Corps is the largest AmeriCorps State program in the country. Its mission is to help every Minnesota child become a proficient reader by the end of third grade. To meet this goal, the Minnesota Reading Corps and its host organization, ServeMinnesota Action Network, engages a diverse group of AmeriCorps members to provide…

Focusing on the Right to Read program in Arizona for the 1970s, sections in this pamphlet concern the national Right to Read effort, the history of Right to Read in Arizona, the reality of the reading crisis, specific activities comprising Arizona's program, the proposed plan of action, the twenty local education agencies identified as Arizona's…

This paper examines the effect of a formal evaluation process upon educational change--specifically, the adoption of innovative reading programs and practices--at different organizational levels of implementation. Because of the size of the project (62 school systems, 142 designated schools, three sets of categorical funded projects), the…

The five sections of this report present information about the evaluation of the Right to Read Project in Illinois for the 1976-77 school year. The first section provides background information about the national Right to Read effort and a history of the project in Illinois. The second section explains the purposes of the project evaluation,…

The data collection instruments used to gather information on the state Right to Read Program, during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974, are presented in this volume. Questionnaires included assess the roles and opinions of the following key individuals in the state and local levels of program administration: chief state school…

During the 2001-2002 school year, the Read to Achieve Grant program was successfully implemented in 553 schools throughout Colorado. All funded schools were held accountable for reaching the specific reading achievement goals outlined in the statute establishing the program in order to be recommended for second year funding. The Read to Achieve…

Colorado Senate Bill 00-71 and S.B. 00-124 established the Read-to-Achieve Grant Program. The purpose of the program is to solicit proposals from any elementary school, including a charter school, or consortium of schools, to fund research-based intensive reading programs. The funding opportunity was designed specifically for second and third…

This report presents the rationale, structure, content and procedures for the computerized bank of reading objectives being developed for New York State schools. The project was initiated to provide a technical resource which would contribute to planning, design, and evaluation of reading programs. The report defines the organizing concepts for…

Reports that librarians in Nebraska find the Golden Sower Award program to be a positive force in influencing children's reading habits and awareness of literature. (FL)

This fifteenth annual report provides a summary of activities offered in Ohio through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Information presented includes (1) statistics for fiscal 1980, (2) participation trends, (3) instructional impact, (4) expenditure and staffing patterns, (5) parent involvement, and (6) five-year trends. The…

An investigation of the activities of the state Right to Read Programs during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 is provided in this volume. In order to determine the effects of the programs at the state and local educational-agency levels, data were obtained from visits to the 31 state departments of education involved and to…

Case studies describing the program operation of the 31 state components of the Right to Read Program during the periods from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1974 are provided in this volume. Data are grouped into nine major categories of investigation: estimated participation in programs, projection of total participation, training activities,…

State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under Chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995, amended 2007), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by…