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Download full textKrashen, Stephen; Lee, Syying; McQuillan, Jeff – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2012
Three multivariate analyses, all controlling for the effects of poverty, confirm the importance of the library. Replicating McQuillan's analysis of 1992 NAEP scores, this study finds that access to books in school and public libraries was a significant predictor of 2007 fourth grade NAEP reading scores, as well as the difference between grade 4…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Public Libraries, Access to Information, Books
Peer reviewedKrashen, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 1998
Providing rich supply of high-interest story books is more feasible policy for literacy education than urgent exhortations to improve teacher quality. Free reading profoundly improves students' reading and writing ability, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary. The quality of a country s or state's school libraries significantly predicts its reading…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Education
Krashen, Stephen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Responds to Richard Innes's criticism of his June 2002 "Kappan" article. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Scores, Standardized Tests
Krashen, Stephen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Argues that California's low fourth-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores between 1987 and 1992 were not related to the whole-language approach to reading instruction introduced in 1987. Suggests that low scores are caused by limited student access to books in school and public libraries. (Contains 36 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Books, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
