Striving Readers Pilot Yields Results as Budget Ax Falls
Even as Congress eliminated funding for the $250 million Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program in a stopgap spending bill enacted last week, continuing research from the pilot that inspired it is starting to show some benefits for struggling adolescent readers.
The original Striving Readers research project, launched by the Bush administration in 2006 and now in the last year of a five-year grant cycle, evaluates the effectiveness of “research-based” literacy interventions at eight sites nationwide for middle and high school students who read at least two years below grade level.
While an earlier 2007-08 implementation study found little benefit for students who participated in the programs, preliminary year-four results from five of the sites, presented at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference in Washington on March 3, show greater improvements, particularly in comprehension, for students in several...
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