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Supporting Literacy Across the Sunshine State: A Study of Florida Middle School Reading Coaches — Aug 14, 2008

Presents results from a RAND evaluation of the implementation and impact of the reading coach program in Florida middle schools.

Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road: A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York — Sep 16, 2005

Examines performance of adolescents (grades 4 through 12) on states' reading or English language arts and writing assessments and on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and documents the content, format, and performance levels of those assessments.

Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension — Jan 1, 2002

In fall 1999, the Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve the quality and relevance of the education research it funds.

Indicators of literacy — Jan 1, 1988

This Joint Note sketches a vision of literacy for future generations that is tied not to the printed page, but rather to a formal style of language that depends on structures, procedures, and strategies for effective use of language in thinking and c...