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Rachel Schechter; Laura Janakiefski – Online Submission, 2024
High-quality decodable books enhance literacy by providing children with focused practice opportunities to break down sounds they have learned and apply their decoding skills. Just Right Reader (JRR) hired LXD Research to measure its impact during a pilot study in the Spring of 2024 to determine the effect of their decodable books on literacy…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Urban Schools, Literacy, Reading Improvement
Tucker, Albert B. – 1993
The austerity of the Great Depression, the popularity of progressive education, and scholarly research in reading from 1900 to 1930 initiated five golden years (1933-1938) of reading improvement in West Texas rural schools. Financial restraints relieved the schools from close scrutiny by the state's education agency. Schools were forced to…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, Reading Improvement
Frost, Joe L.; Pilgrim, Geneva Hanna – 1969
This job corps center program is designed for male school drop outs from low socioeconomic backgrounds and ages 16 through 21 years, whose entrance test scores reveal marked deficiencies in reading. Three thousand of the dropouts were enrolled in a foundation reading program designed to advance skills sufficiently for the students to take advanced…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Reading Improvement