She has also consulted for the Connecticut and Massachusetts Departments of Education concerning state - wide
reading improvement programs.
It presses for a twin focus on fluency in decoding words and reading comprehension, urges
reading improvement programs to stress impact rather than the number of children served, and calls for strengthening professional development and linking improved training in language development and reading to classroom practice.
This initiative might focus its energies initially on three to five long - term projects in areas such as developing
reading improvement programs or helping at - risk children make successful transitions from early - childhood programs into regular classrooms.
Not exact matches
The other day in class, I covered Ben Franklin's Autobiography and his self -
improvement program, which included
reading lots of books — no small charge for a poor apprentice printer.
That is to say, Lunch Money is a really great way for parents to get up to speed on how school lunch
programs operate and areas where there may be clear room for
improvement, but no parent should assume that just by
reading Lunch Money he or she fully understands the challenges faced by their own food services director.
As we approach the Child Nutrition Reauthorization in Congress - the every - five - year funding of child nutrition
programs - lawmakers will have the opportunity to weaken some of 2010's biggest school meal
improvements with respect to sodium, whole... [Continue
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Both groups of schools saw an increase in the average math and
reading scores during the first two years of the bonus
program; treatment - group schools, however, did not experience a statistically significant
improvement in average test scores relative to the schools in the control group.
Studies have shown that schools offering intense physical activity
programs have seen positive effects on academic performance such as
improvements in math,
reading, and classroom behavior — even when the added time takes away from academic instruction time.
Since the
program's inception in 2004, students participating in the Opportunity Scholarship Program have posted strong graduation rates and reading impro
program's inception in 2004, students participating in the Opportunity Scholarship
Program have posted strong graduation rates and reading impro
Program have posted strong graduation rates and
reading improvement.
Research shows that students who take part in high - quality summer learning
programs that combine academics, enrichment and physical activity benefit from substantial
improvements in their academic achievement, vocabulary and
reading skills, social skills, work habits and attitudes, and readiness to learn.
Barbash's review of
Reading First programs in four states and in the Bureau of Indian Education is important because it highlights critical factors essential to reading improvement: strong leadership, effective professional development for teachers and principals, data - driven differentiated instruction, specific coaching and guidance to ensure implementation fidelity, and continuous program eval
Reading First
programs in four states and in the Bureau of Indian Education is important because it highlights critical factors essential to
reading improvement: strong leadership, effective professional development for teachers and principals, data - driven differentiated instruction, specific coaching and guidance to ensure implementation fidelity, and continuous program eval
reading improvement: strong leadership, effective professional development for teachers and principals, data - driven differentiated instruction, specific coaching and guidance to ensure implementation fidelity, and continuous
program evaluation.
Second graders whose teachers over three years had participated in the
program showed significant
improvement in
reading skills, equal to moving from the 50th to the 57th percentile.
Read more about the
programs and initiatives that led to this
improvement.
[vii] The randomized evaluation of the i3 - funded scale up of
Reading Recovery found quite large short - run impacts of the
program at scale (0.3 - 0.4 standard deviation
improvement from participation in the 12 - 20 week intervention).
The final evaluation of the School
Improvement Grant (SIG)
program found no significant impacts on math or
reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.
For example, the Motivation Project and the School
Improvement Project (see Table 3) represent extended collaborations with two separate universities that had direct impact on the early
reading program.
G reat emphasis is currently being placed on
improvement of early
reading achievement through reform of schools, educational
programs, and teaching.
Disaggregated student performance and behavior data,
reading plan, strategic plan, school
improvement plans, professional learning needs, assessment data, and data from the district's educator observational system were used to design a continuous, flexible professional development
program.
The categories included
program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of
programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing
reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about
reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the
reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of
reading failure to
program defects).
In research closely related to the Science IDEAS model, Guthrie and his colleagues (Guthrie & Oztgungor, 2002; Guthrie, Wigfield, Barbosa, & Others, 2004; Guthrie, Wigfield, & Perencevich, 2004) have conducted series of studies showing consistent
improvement in student
reading comprehension and motivation - to - learn resulting from embedding science - focused instructional modules into traditional
reading programs using their CORI model.
The Blue Ribbon Schools state and nationwide
program honors schools for high performance and students»
improvement in
reading and...
In our district,
programs such as
Read 180 / System 44, Leveled Literacy Interventions, Great Leaps, Phonics for Readers, and Math Diagnostic and Intervention System provide research - based interventions as well as progress monitoring tools to assess
improvement or the need for more intensive interventions.
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PRIVATE SCHOOL VOUCHERS: While some
improvement is included to exclude people with criminal records from staffing private schools, a new scholarship
program is proposed for students who score below a «3» on the FSA
reading test.
One evaluation of the D.C. voucher
program found students had slightly higher
reading scores but no significant
improvements in math.
Advocates point to successes, such as the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district, which claims measurable, albeit modest, academic
improvements, at least in the short term, in
reading and math for low - income elementary - school students sent to predominantly middle - class schools through a
program of dispersed low - income housing.
No, says the RAND
Reading Study Group in
Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D
Program in
Reading Comprehension, prepared for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and
Improvement.
The 2013 - 14 school year requires third grade teachers in the state of Ohio who work with students that are either on a
reading improvement and monitoring plan, or have been retained to hold a credential or participate in a scientifically research - based
reading instruction training
program.
It found no statistically significant
improvement in
reading or math test scores for students participating in the
program.
The two sub-groups of students who showed the most
improvement in
reading were students for which federal government intervention is the least justifiable: students who did not come from SINI schools and students who were in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the
Program.
The study found increased
reading achievement for a subset of students (students from schools not in need of
improvement and students who were already testing in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the
program) but not for students from schools in need of
improvement, which the
program specifically targeted.
Word of the 100 Book Challenge spread, and Ms. Hileman was invited to bring the
program into Philadelphia city schools, where her ideas for
reading improvement were put to use in several of the district's poorest and poorest - performing schools.
The TLC is a Network of three teacher study groups (Literary Circle, Book Club Plus Study Group, and the Literacy Circle Study Group) across southeastern Michigan, supported in part by the Center for the
Improvement of Early
Reading Achievement and in part by the Walgreen Teachers in Residence
Program at the University of Michigan.
Forrest Road Elementary School principal Stephanie Dalton explains how the Achieve3000
reading program has helped her school, which leads the Muscogee County School District in Lexile level
improvement in the two years it has used the
program.
As I've reported before (see here, here, and here), the
program's outcomes are lackluster at best, yet the Mayor has trumpeted his plan as a panacea... Continue
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Improvement; Curtains for Chancellor Fariña?
Last year a group of nine leading educational researchers summarized the evidence this way: «Among voucher
programs, random - assignment studies generally find modest
improvements in
reading or math scores, or both.
«With regard to the efficacy of having students engage in independent silent
reading with minimal guidance or feedback, the Panel was unable to find a positive relationship between
programs and instruction that encourage large amounts of independent
reading and
improvements in
reading achievement (p. 12).»
In a speech in November 2014 he vowed to «demand fast and intense
improvement» for the 78 schools in the
program, just as earlier that year in Riverside Church he made a commitment to «shake the foundations» of the school... Continue
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DORA Phonemic Awareness «s web - based platform allows for practical school or district - wide deployment of assessments, leading to dramatic
reading score
improvement, the enrichment of literacy
programs, and time and cost savings.
For years, leaders of both parties had poured more and more money into federal
programs for disadvantaged students, at a rate greatly exceeding the increases in inflation; yet the
improvements in
reading performance, for the student population as a whole and for disadvantaged students in particular, had been modest or flat.
The
program has demonstrated that: students who continuously
read to the animals often show
improvement in...
The
program has been linked to
improvements in children's
reading skills as well as to greater self - confidence in Paws to
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A study at the University of California, Davis found that children who participated in a 10 - week
reading program saw a 12 percent
improvement in their
reading.
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