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Hanlon, Sean Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many students are not prepared to meet the literacy demands of college and career as defined by the Common Core State Standards (2010). Literacy researchers have struggled to define the frequency and type of reading practice necessary to nurture the development of reading ability. The principles of deliberate practice provide a theoretical…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Educational Technology, Hypothesis Testing, Reading Improvement
Moore, Deborah Green – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite the number of programs in Mississippi that focus on developing and training teachers, the State continues to face a critical teacher shortage. This non-experimental, ex-post facto, quantitative study investigated the America Reads-Mississippi (ARM) Future Teacher Corps (FTC) program, an AmeriCorps program in Mississippi with a mission to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis
Van Vinkle, Michael Harvey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Educators today were concerned with how the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 dealt with the improvement of education throughout the United States. Schools should have put forth a greater effort and reduced the achievement gap between different groups of students based on race, gender, special education status, and if that student was economically…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Teachers