Multi-Year Research Project Will Analyze Summer Reading Benefits and Losses in Grades K-5
Deborah Reed, Tennessee Reading Research Center Director, is the recipient of a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. The project will review and meta-analyze two bodies of research: One on the summer learning effect and on the other on the effectiveness of summer reading interventions. The results of the four-year project could inform school planning for summer programs, existing policies on students’ summer learning, and the gaps in what we know about students’ reading achievement over the summer. Also partnering on this work are Terri Pigott from Georgia State University and the Tennessee Reading Research Center’s Research Assistant Professors Anna Gibbs and Huibin Zhang.
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