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Walker, Jake; Holland, Greg; Wheeler Hill, Ellie – Arkansas Research Center, 2022
This report finds that participation in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (DPIL) has a number of short term and sustained benefits for students, regardless of family income level. DPIL participation was associated with lower retention rates in kindergarten, 3rd grade, and at any point from kindergarten through 3rd grade. Participants in DPIL also…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
Valora J. Unowsky – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The focus of this study was to examine the effective instructional practices, philosophies, values, and beliefs of highly effective reading teachers, as evidenced by their students' rate of reading growth over the course of one academic year across all demographic subgroups. Teacher instructional strategies, approaches to tier one and tier two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten