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DeNight, Shawn – 1992
The purpose of this study was to examine whether proofreading a text aloud was more effective than silent proofreading in helping Black English Vernacular (BEV) speaking students to locate and correct dialect features in writing. The study was divided into two parts. In the first part, 29 11th grade BEV-speakers edited three teacher-produced…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Error Correction, Grade 11, High Schools
Sunderman, Gail L.; Amoa, Marian; Meyers, Tiffany – 1999
To understand the capacity of middle and high schools to support reading, a study examined two questions: (1) How do middle/high schools organize and allocate resources to support reading? and (2) How do middle/high schools respond to resource and structural challenges created by the multiple institutional actors that comprise the school system?…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs