Extra Literacy Class Helps Struggling Readers—Some
A federal study suggests that giving struggling 9th grade readers an extra literacy class can boost their reading-comprehension skills, but not dramatically enough to get them up to grade level by the end of a single school year.
The findings came this month in the first of three reports to be issued under the Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study , a federal program that is testing promising strategies for low-performing adolescent readers in 34 high schools across the country.
“We know very little about what it takes to improve reading skills of struggling adolescent readers,” said James J. Kemple, the director of K-12 education policy for MDRC, the New York City-based research firm that is leading the study under a contract with the federal...
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