Beyond research: improving how we improve reading.

Abstract

To garner the literacy horizontals necessary for a post-modern society to help reading programs must match effective reading pedagogy. No Child Left Behind of 2001 (NCLB) mandated reading improvement, and Reading First provides funding to implement research-based programs. We must pass beyond scientifically based research to consider implementation of reading programs identified within the words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following of NCLB. Developing shared understanding of reading pedagogy is as essential as scientifically based reading research if all children are to read through the third grade.

Introduction

Recently a professional educator magazine, Educational Leadership, published an issue focused upon reading research. In ...