Indiana's Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program Impact Study for 1997-98 (original) (raw)

1999, Bloomington, IN: Indiana …

Abstract: The early literacy challenge in Indiana is to increase the literacy skills of students in Grades K-3 who are at risk for school failure. In 1997 the Indiana Department of Education began implementing the Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program (ELIGP)--close to half the ELIGP funding supported professional development for teachers and teacher trainers involved in Reading Recovery. The remaining schools had projects referred to in this impact study as Other Early Literacy Interventions (OELI). Examples of OELI projects funded ...

Indiana’s Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program Implementation Study

1998

Abstract: A study examined the implementation of the Indiana Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program during the 1997-98 school year, when the program funded a total of 133 projects and served 9,685 students in its first year. The study incorporated an analysis of existing databases, a systematic review of the research literature on reading interventions, and the analysis of a survey of funded projects (Reading Recovery (tm), Early Literacy Learning Initiative, full-day kindergarten, and other early literacy interventions). Four ...

Literacy Intervention Program Evaluation 2019

2019

For over 20 years, Idaho leaders have recognized the critical importance of early childhood literacy. In this time, the Idaho State Legislature, State Board of Education and State Department of Education have put in place policies, rules, plans and programs to support reading proficiency in Idaho’s kindergarten through third grade students. In 2015, the Board of Education published an updated Comprehensive Literacy Plan for the state and the Legislature responded in 2016 by amending statutes related to early literacy development and establishing the current Literacy Intervention Program. Most recently, in 2018, the Legislature requested an external evaluation of the Literacy Intervention Program. This report, by the Idaho Policy Institute, serves as this evaluation. The report briefly reviews early childhood literacy efforts in Idaho to provide the necessary background and context of this program. It then evaluates the Literacy Intervention Program itself and discusses its design, u...

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