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Direct linkMoore-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
Carlisle, Joanne F.; Cortina, Kai S.; Zeng, Ji – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
The purpose of this article is to examine whether there were improvements in the percentage of first-, second-, and third-grade students in Reading First (RF) schools in Michigan who performed at or above grade level on a standardized test of reading comprehension. The study reports results for 140 schools that participated in the RF initiative…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Poverty, Teacher Persistence, Reading Achievement
