News From Breakthrough to Literacy
"Reading Program Reduces Economic Disparity"
By Staci Hupp
Des Moines Register, July 23, 2004
University of Iowa researchers receive grant to study Breakthrough to Literacy's effectiveness in large Chicago schools. An answer for administrators seeking ways to help children of poverty become better readers.
Read the online article at http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040723/NEWS02/407230350/1004
"Let Them Eat More than Phonics,"
by Jerry Zimmermann and Carolyn Brown
Phi Delta Kappan, April 2003 (Vol. 84, No. 8)
Did faulty science behind the food pyramid contribute to America's obesity epidemic? Here's why federal "research-based" guidelines for reading programs also could have unintended negative consequences.
Read the online article at www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0304zim.htm
"Put an End to Two-Tier Early Literacy Education,"
by Jerry Zimmermann and Carolyn Brown
Education Week, December 5, 2001
This should be a golden era for early literacy education. But are the children who need help the most being relegated to the lower rung of a two-tier approach to instruction?
Read the online article at http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=14zimmerman.h21
As first appeared in Education Week, December 5, 2001
Reprinted with permission from the authors.
"Breakthrough to Literacy Helps Virginia Students Achieve Record Reading Scores"
