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Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation
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Hernandez, Donald J. – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2011
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students who fail to reach this critical milestone often falter in the later grades and drop out before earning a high school diploma. This study relies on a unique national database of 3,975 students born between 1979 and 1989. The…
Descriptors: Poverty, Graduation Rate, Economically Disadvantaged, Reading Tests
A Longitudinal Case Study of a Literacy Program Titled Reading Recovery for Students in a Struggling Midwestern School District
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Ingrid Danielle McClendon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study followed a cohort of students from Grade 1 to Grade 11 in one struggling school district that had Reading Recovery (RR) in the Grade 1. The RR program is an intervention given only to students in the Grade 1 who are reading below grade level on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Assessment. The researched district had a high poverty, high…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, School Districts, Grade 1
Preventing Early School Failure: Impacts of Success for All on Standardized Test Outcomes, Minority Group Performance, and School Effectiveness.
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And Others; Ross, Steven M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Examines school performance across three grades on both individually administered reading tests and state-mandated standardized tests between students of a Success for All (SFA) program and controls. Results show more positive effects for SFA students, some decline in effects over time, and greater effects for minority than for nonminority…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Grade 1