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Angela Sandifer Flowers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
South Carolina implemented its Read to Succeed (RTS) policy in 2014 in accordance with federal requirements. The problem addressed in this study was that there are many students in South Carolina Title I schools still failing to achieve reading proficiency after 3 years of full implementation of RTS. The purpose of this qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Program Implementation, Success, Reading Instruction
Region 1 Comprehensive Center, 2024
After the pandemic, many students returned to the classroom behind on reading, as shown by data in the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). Those students are now adolescents and approaching a critical turning point in their education: They are expected to read with greater independence. For students who are still struggling to…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Ability, Achievement Gap, COVID-19
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Edwards, Lawanda; Thornton, Parichart; Holiday-Driver, Necoal – Alabama Counseling Association Journal, 2010
Examined is an outlook of the achievement gap among African-American and White students in school settings. Statistics and other pertinent information are evaluated to demonstrate how this is a growing problem in schools. An exploration of how school counselors can meet the demands and recognize the effects the achievement gap has on…
Descriptors: African American Students, Reading Achievement, School Counseling, School Counselors
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Koedel, Cory – Public Policy Institute of California, 2010
The San Diego Unified School District, the nation's eighth-largest, launched an ambitious program of literacy reforms in 2000 aimed at narrowing reading achievement gaps. Known as the Blueprint for Student Success, the program ran through 2005. The reforms succeeded in boosting the reading achievement of students who had been identified as lagging…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gap, Program Evaluation
Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2005
This volume presents the 54th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). The 2004 NRC conference, set in San Antonio, took place against a political backdrop in which the nature and substance of literacy research has become suspect. Given the current state of politically-driven research agendas, the focus of the 54th annual NRC…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Conferences (Gatherings), Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication