That happened, she said, "because George led the way" by focusing state money and the attention of the schools on reading.
Ogle et al. ([2003]), for example, found students in private schools in the USA tending to outperform those in public schools on reading tasks because of the former having access to many more educational resources.
Twin pairs were identified from the records of 27 Colorado school districts and ascertained if at least one member had a school history of reading difficulty.
hvadaltsaa is reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot – and had to change formats halfway through: I started reading this via ebook on my computer, then via Gutenberg on my phone but nothing is more satisfying that the old school method of reading a book (even though they almost cost the price of a theatre ticket).
Luyten et al. (2008) used PISA 2000 data from England to estimate the effects of age and schooling on reading achievement in grades 10 and 11.
Students who learn English in academic track schools achieve levels of reading literacy that are similar to those of average performing students from countries where English is the majority language.
In New York City many public and private elementary schools and some middle schools already employ versions of reading workshop.
Interestingly, preferred school courses did not show a significant simple effect but gave significant results when interacting only with high school type and frequency of reading.
As reviewed above, the affective factors examined in the present study (i.e., reading attitude, reading motivation, and reading self-concept) and the environments in home and school are significant contributors of reading development among typically-achieving children.
The interaction between preferred school courses and frequency of reading resulted in a constant increase of the mean values of the students' scores with increasing frequency of reading, the effect being higher in the case of students with humanistic interests.
