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The University of Southern Mississippi

No Child Left Behind

2009

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The Impact Of Fast Forword On Mct Scores And Student Achievement, Michael Harvey Van Winkle May 2009

The Impact Of Fast Forword On Mct Scores And Student Achievement, Michael Harvey Van Winkle

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Educators today were concerned with how the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 dealt with the improvement of education throughout the United States. Schools should have put forth a greater effort and reduced the achievement gap between different groups of students based on race, gender, special education status, and if that student was economically disadvantaged. A problem was identified as low student MCT scores in the state of Mississippi. A tutorial method that claimed to help improve students in the areas of reading and language was identified as Fast ForWord.

This study set out to find if there was …