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Greenleaf, Cynthia; Hanson, Thomas; Herman, Joan; Litman, Cindy; Rosen, Rachel; Schneider, Steve; Silver, David – WestEd, 2011
This report describes findings from an efficacy study examining the effects of professional development focused on integrating academic literacy instruction with content area coursework on teacher instructional practices and student achievement in reading and high school biology and US history. The research builds on a well-tested approach to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biology, Science Instruction, United States History
Silk, Yael; Silver, David; Amerian, Stephanie; Nishimura, Claire; Boscardin, Christy Kim – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
This report describes a classroom artifact measure and presents early findings from an efficacy study of WestEd's Reading Apprenticeship (RA) professional development program. The professional development is designed to teach high school teachers how to integrate subject-specific literacy instruction into their regular curricula. The current RA…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Academic Achievement, Integrated Curriculum
Moustafa, Margaret; Land, Robert – 2001
This study compares average SAT 9 reading scores of second through fifth grade English-only children in schools using "Open Court" (a program for teaching young children to read) with the scores of comparable schools using non-scripted programs in one very large urban school district in California. Findings show that schools using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Low Income, Program Effectiveness