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Striving Readers
The Striving Readers Grant is a 5 year, 16 million dollar federally funded research study that will allow MCS and the University of Memphis to work as partners to study adolescent literacy challenges in our district.
The project has two primary goals:
- To present and test the efficacy of a professional development model (the Memphis Content Literacy Academy-MCLA) for improving reading achievement and content literacy in high-need, urban middle schools. All core subject content teachers in the randomly assigned experimental sites will be recruited to participate in this intensive training. Principals at the targeted schools have already agreed to participate in the program and its requirements.
- To test the efficacy of the READ 180 reading intervention program for improving reading achievement in high need urban middle schools. During the first two years of the study, 960 students (spread evenly across the 8 project schools) will be randomly assigned to the READ 180 intervention, and 960 students will serve as the controls. During the final two years of the study, an additional 720 (both experimental and control) students will be studied.
Eight middle schools have been selected to participate in the project. Four of the schools will serve as control sites, and four will be experimental. These schools switch roles (control to experimental) in the fall of 2008.
Experimental Sites: (Fall 2006-Spring 2007, and Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
Sherwood Middle School
Hamilton Middle School
Riverview Middle School
A. Maceo Walker Middle SchoolControl Sites: (Fall 2008-Spring 2009, and Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
American Way Middle School
Lanier Middle School
Corry Middle School
Hickory Ridge Middle School
Independent evaluators have contracted with MCS and the U of M to evaluate the efficacy of both of the goals listed above. Therefore, the project will be evaluated under a rigorously designed research model with interpretable results.
