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Download full textKansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1970
The objective for the Kansas Right-to-Read Program is to assure that every child enrolled in regular classrooms in public schools in Kansas shall be able to read fifth grade level material with at least 75 percent comprehension and a reading rate of at least 125 words per minute. This objective will hopefully be reached by 1980. It is proposed…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Elementary School Teachers, Improvement Programs, Inservice Education
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1970
Prepared for a White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this report describes the Corrective Reading Program of Wichita, supported in target areas by funds from ESEA Title I and considered an effective large-scale remedial program which operates in the public schools. Special classes are held in each school building in which the program…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Compensatory Education, Comprehension, Corrective Reading
Turner, W. E.; Bare, Janet – 1972
The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Primary Education
