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Hirsch, Eric Donald, Jr. – Brookings Institution, The: Brown Center on Education Policy, 2005
Longitudinal analysis of early childhood education, such as that in Project Follow Through, shows the superiority of explicit skill instruction for the acquisition of basic reading skills. But these early gains do not eventuate in significant progress in reading achievement in later grades, especially among disadvantaged youth. This is not for…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Disadvantaged Youth