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Allington, Richard L. – Voices from the Middle, 2011
At the minimum, one of every four middle school students will struggle to cope with the grade-level textbooks they are typically assigned to read. Few reading programs used in middle schools have any research evidence that they actually improve student reading proficiencies. Only three programs had even modest evidence of a positive effect, and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Textbooks, Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs