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Where Is NELP Leading Preschool Literacy Instruction? Potential Positives and Pitfalls
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Teale, William H.; Hoffman, Jessica L.; Paciga, Kathleen A. – Educational Researcher, 2010
This article discusses the potential positive and problematic influences of the National Early Literacy Panel (NELP; 2008) report on prekindergarten and kindergarten classroom instructional practice. The authors support the instructional importance of the majority of the foundational skills identified in the NELP report as having "clear and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods
Revisiting the Question: What Difference Does Reading Recovery Make to an Age Cohort?
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Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Educational Researcher, 1996
The author responds to Pinnell et al's (1996) call for caution in using cost-benefit analysis in measuring educational reform success. It is argued that reform already is being sold to state legislators and educators in cost-benefit terms and that research has been inappropriately used in the selling process. (GR)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Criticism, Educational Research, Educationally Disadvantaged
Response to Hiebert: What Difference Does Reading Recovery Make?
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Pinnell, Gay Su; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1996
Responds to Hiebert's 1994 article in Educational Researcher in which she criticized Reading Recovery (RR) advocates for failing to base RR's success on an adequate cost-benefit analysis. The authors suggest reliance on the informal judgements of local administrators rather than using administratively difficult, large-scale, cost-benefit analyses…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Criticism, Educational Improvement