An article on students’ dialects in the Sept. 10, 2014, edition of Education Week mischaracterized the gains in word decoding made in an eight-week pilot study of the ToggleTalk intervention. According to researchers, the participating students’ improvements were very close to statistically significant in a study with a small sample size.
A version of this article appeared in the September 24, 2014 edition of Education Week as Clarification