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Direct linkCasey, Bernadette L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study was designed as non-experimental longitudinal research. This was explanatory research because the researcher sought to explain factors that produced change. The study was a panel or prospective study because the same individuals were studied over a specified period of time. The design included both quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Interviews, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedGresham, Frank M.; Vellutino, Frank R. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
A fundamental assumption in the identification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) has been that the presence of a severe discrepancy between ability and academic achievement is a valid marker for the presence of a SLD. This assumption is based on the notion that discrepant low achievers constitute a unique group of children who are different…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intelligence Quotient, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement
Wankoff, Lorain Szabo; Cairns, Helen Smith – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2009
This study was designed to determine the contributions of metalinguistic skill and psycholinguistic processing ability to children's ability to detect the ambiguity of sentences and the relationship among all three factors to early reading ability. A total of 20 first graders and 20 second graders were given tasks testing the following abilities:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Reading Readiness
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Let's Begin with the Letter People"[R] is an early education curriculum that uses thematic units to develop children's language and literacy skills. A major focus is phonological awareness, including rhyming, word play, alliteration, and segmentation. Children are encouraged to learn as individuals, in small groups, and in a whole-class…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Intervention, Reading Skills, Oral Language
Napier Boyer, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to ascertain if the reading comprehension skills of English-speaking fifth grade students improve when they study a second language. The research was done in an inner-city elementary school in Rochester, New York. The researcher provided a weekly after-school workshop in foreign languages for a group of children…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication
Newton, Anne; Vogt, Kristen – Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (NJ1), 2008
Early college is a bold approach that blends high school and college in a rigorous yet supportive program to help young people simultaneously earn a diploma and tuition-free credit toward a postsecondary degree. Designed for students underrepresented in higher education, these innovative small public schools focus on the preparation of low-income…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Youth, Scholarships
Trampush, Joey W.; Miller, Carlin J.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Halperin, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2009
Objective: To examine cognitive and psychosocial factors associated with high school dropout in urban adolescents with and without childhood ADHD. Method: In a longitudinal study, 49 adolescents/young adults with childhood ADHD and 44 controls who either dropped out or graduated from high school are included. Risk factors examined as potential…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Marijuana, Dropouts, Intelligence Quotient
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) NCLB Anniversary Prompts Renewed Calls for Reauthorization: Growth Models, High School Reform Emerge as Points of…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Public Education, High Schools
Zorfass, Judith; Urbano, Carole – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2008
This study, conducted during the 2006/07 academic year, describes how four midsize urban school districts in the Northeast and Islands Region--Worcester, Massachusetts; Nashua, New Hampshire; Yonkers, New York; and Providence, Rhode Island--were providing foundation skills assessments and programs to struggling middle-grade readers. Researchers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, School Districts, Basic Skills
Baldwin, James; Bender, Ida C. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook is part of a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The selections to be memorized are such as have been recommended and required by the departments of education in New York state and elsewhere. They…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Instruction, Classics (Literature), Reading Skills
Baldwin, James; Bender, Ida C. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook is part of a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The selections to be memorized are such as have been recommended and required by the departments of education in New York state and elsewhere. They…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Classics (Literature)
Darvin, Jacqueline – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2009
The purpose of this article is to provide a model of an academic intervention and support program in literacy that focuses on the needs of individual students and revalues them as readers, goals that are of extreme importance when working with adolescents who have repeatedly experienced academic failure and view themselves as poor readers. This…
Descriptors: Intervention, Clubs, After School Programs, Academic Support Services
Educational Developmental Labs., Inc., Huntington, NY. – 1962
EYE-MOVEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDES THE TEACHER OF READING, THE READING DIAGNOSTICIAN, AND THE VISION SPECIALIST WITH AN OBJECTIVE AND PRACTICAL MEANS FOR MEASURING THE WAY A PERSON HAS LEARNED TO USE HIS EYES IN READING WITH ANY FUNCTIONAL OR INTERPRETIVE DIFFICULTIES IN EFFECT. EYE MOVEMENTS ARE NEITHER THE CAUSE NOR THE EFFECT OF POOR READING,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Photography, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Winters, Marcus A. – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2008
In 2006-07, New York City, the largest school district in the United States, decided it would follow several other school systems in adopting a progress report program. Under its program, the city grades schools from A to F according to an accumulating point system based on the weighted average of measurements of school environment, students'…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Grades (Scholastic), Mathematics Skills
PIVNICK, ISADORE – 1962
THE STRENGTHENING OF READING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS, THE PROMOTING OF CLOSER RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD AND PARENTS, AND THE HELPING OF YOUTHS IN GETTING JOBS AND COLLEGE PLACEMENT ARE THE GOALS OF A PILOT PROJECT IN A CULTURALLY DEPRIVED AREA. INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT ARE TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, ONE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AND THREE HIGH SCHOOLS,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Skills, Motivation Techniques
