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Nebraska Reading First Final Report, Guy Trainin, Kathryn Ac Wilson
Nebraska Reading First Final Report, Guy Trainin, Kathryn Ac Wilson
Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design
Reading First has been implemented in Nebraska since the 2004-5 academic year. In two rounds of funding and participation, schools have transformed the way they trained their teachers, measured student progress, and taught. This transformation is one of the hardest tasks in education and it has taken the considerable dedication of school personnel as well as dedicated leaders from the Nebraska Department of education. The program has seen great success in increasing the proportion of students acquiring basic literacy skills of phonemic awareness, decoding, and oral reading fluency. That initial success has led to an increase in outcomes even for …