This quarterly newsletter covers educational issues affecting schools in WestEd's 4-state region (Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah) and nationwide. This Summer 1999 edition contains a lead article entitled "Reading for Understanding: A Modern Urban Success Story,lI which describes a course in "academic literacy," developed by educators Ruth Schoenbach, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Christine Cziko in 1996. The article states that a group of San Francisco ninth graders improved their reading comprehension substantially on the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) standardized test after taking the course; in 20 other Bay Area middle and high schools, students gained almost two years reading comprehension from October to May. Other articles in the newsletter are: ttInstitute Trains Overlooked Population: Tutors and Paraeducators"; ttTeaching Children to Read Is Everyone's Responsibilitytt; and "Network Trains Teachers To Help All Children Become Literate.I t.
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Chicago
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education. "ED464334 - Reading for Understanding: A Modern Urban Success Story". Government. U.S. Department of Education, January 1, 1999. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464334
APA
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education. (1999, January 1). ED464334 - Reading for Understanding: A Modern Urban Success Story. [Government]. U.S. Department of Education. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464334
MLA
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education. ED464334 - Reading for Understanding: A Modern Urban Success Story. U.S. Department of Education, (1 Jan 1999), https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464334
Bluebook
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education, Reading for Understanding: A Modern Urban Success Story, GovInfo, (January 1, 1999), https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464334
