Scholastic’s Exaggerated Claim: “US DOE Striving Reader Study Proves READ 180 Works!”
Scholastic’s Exaggerated Claim: “US DOE Striving Reader Study Proves READ 180 Works!”
Stephen Krashen
A recent ad from Scholastic claims that READ 180 students have made “tremendous progress” in three locations: Newark, Springfield Mass, and Ohio, citing a US Department of Education report on Striving Readers programs. Scholastic notes that differences between READ 180 students and comparisons were not significantly different in another site, Memphis.
A look at the actual DOE report shows that the differences between READ 180 students and comparisons in
Stephen Krashen
A recent ad from Scholastic claims that READ 180 students have made “tremendous progress” in three locations: Newark, Springfield Mass, and Ohio, citing a US Department of Education report on Striving Readers programs. Scholastic notes that differences between READ 180 students and comparisons were not significantly different in another site, Memphis.
A look at the actual DOE report shows that the differences between READ 180 students and comparisons in
