Fifth Year Evaluation Report for the Cornerstone Literacy Initiative
157 Pages Posted: 19 Dec 2007
Date Written: April 2007
Abstract
This report continues to track the implementation and impact among schools participating in the Cornerstone National Literacy Initiative reform, now in its sixth year of operation. The results confirm previous findings that Cornerstone schools become better at implementing the reform with time. As acceptance of and enthusiasm for the reform increases, changes in teaching practices become more institutionalized, and the skills of both teachers and students improve. While there is variation at each site, analysis of test score outcomes indicates that given time, Cornerstone schools will see improvement in student achievement. Cornerstone is successful at improving the achievement of students overall in some districts and at raising the performance of students who are typically considered most at-risk in other districts. Regression results indicate that it may take, at the very least, two to three years of implementation to begin to see even a small impact on test scores.
Keywords: literacy reform
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