New Report: Launching Literacy in After-School Programs

Posted by on April 7, 2006

[posted from Promising Practices in After School listserv]

P/PV is pleased to announce the publication of a new report:

Launching Literacy in After-School Programs: Early Lessons from the CORAL Initiative

The James Irvine Foundation launched the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative in 1999 with the goal of improving the academic achievement of children in the lowest-performing schools in five California cities. In 2004, CORAL adopted a more targeted approach toward reaching this goal by integrating a regular schedule of literacy instruction into its after-school programs. This interim report, based on research conducted between Fall 2004 and Summer 2005, documents CORAL’s progress toward implementing high-quality and consistent literacy programming. The report presents early results in terms of youth’s positive reading gains and describes the program components that appear to have contributed to these gains. It also identifies challenges CORAL sites faced and successful strategies for addressing
those challenges.

To view the report, please visit:
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/youth/youth_publications.asp?section_id=8#pub192

Thank you,

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