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Zimmerman, Marty – Online Submission, 2011
This action research developed as a response to the researcher's experience with struggling and alliterate readers across all content areas in secondary schools. The researcher witnessed the negative impact of a depressed economy and depressed reading proficiency pervasive among students based on classroom experience and standardized testing. The…
Descriptors: Action Research, Secondary Education, High School Students, Reading Difficulties
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Moore-Hart, Margaret; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
In 1996 President Clinton established the America Reads Challenge Act (1997), which included a commitment that every child will read independently and well by the end of third grade. This initiative was predicated on links between achievement and poverty (Riley, 1996, 2002) and that children reading below grade level in the early grades perform…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Volunteers, Tutoring