I don't think this off-topic, but I apologize if everyone thinks it is.
I need QUICKLY to locate an article that has come out in the past few months
saying that despite all the money spent by the Feds on Reading First and
despite the fact there was about twice as much time spent on reading
OK, Here's another site with more definitive evidence. This appears to be
the final report and does show no significant gains in comprehension.
http://www.abtassociates.com/Page.cfm?pageid=40811
Deidra Chandler, NC
MA Early Childhood Ed
MA Reading
MultiSensory Structured Language Intervention
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pdf/20094038.pdf
The final report is available in pdf format from the US Department of
Education, Institute of Education Science at the website listed above,
published in November of 2008. The Executive Summary, pages xv-xxvii may be
helpful.
I believe the article
Here is an article by Stephen Krashen from Reading Today summarizing the
reports findings.
http://www.sdkrashen.com/articles/failure_reading_first/failure_reading_first.pdf
Deidra Chandler, NC
MA Early Childhood Ed
MA Reading
MultiSensory Structured Language Intervention Tutor
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We're working on improving our secondary reading and writing support classes
and questions have come up over ideal class size. Does anyone have access to
some related research? Also, what is the typical class size in these classes?
Any help you can give me would be fantastic!
Thanks!
