The National Reading Panel recently concluded that pre-literacy and early literacy instruction is appropriate for kindergarten students and an important element of promoting higher achievement in later grades. This paper ...

Reviews of research on rural education suggest that identifying ways to help rural schools improve teachers’ pedagogical skills should be a high priority. This article addresses this issue by examining changes in reading ...

This report examines data from two elementary schools in the Bethel, Oregon, school district. One school adopted the Direct Instruction program, Reading Mastery, as the core reading curriculum for the primary grades. The ...