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Dan Reynolds; Brianna Rae Kemper; Kristin Collette – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
While adolescent foundational skills interventions can be critical levers for reading improvement, district leaders, teachers, and researchers must make complex decisions about how to evaluate their effectiveness in context. In this discussion article, we explore three issues and tensions we experienced during a 2-year research-practice…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Urban Areas, School Districts
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Patricia A. Young – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2014
Produced in 1977, "Bridge: A Cross Culture Reading Program" could have transformed what we presently know as urban education. However, "Bridge" met with the disapproval of parents, communities, and school districts. The execution of a truly transformative curriculum died as an experimental project implemented in urban school…
Descriptors: African American Students, Reading Programs, Reading Skills, Junior High School Students
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Lee, Carol D. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2006
This article explicates the Cultural Modeling Framework for designing robust learning environments that leverage everyday knowledge of culturally diverse students to support subject-matter-specific learning. It reports a study of Cultural Modeling in the teaching of response to literature in an urban underachieving high school serving…
Descriptors: Models, Urban Schools, African American Students, Low Income Groups