Does Reading Recovery Work for English-Learners?
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Does Reading Recovery Work for English-Learners?

By Mary Ann Zehr — December 16, 2009 1 min read
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The What Works Clearinghouse of the U.S. Department of Education asked whether the tutoring intervention Reading Recovery is effective for English-language learners but didn’t reach a conclusion. It identified 13 studies of Reading Recovery used with ELLs but didn’t find any of them met the “evidence standards” for the clearinghouse, as I blogged about today over at Curriculum Matters.

Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She is the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.