Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy

Title:	Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy
Description:	This report describes efforts by five states—Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—to improve adolescent literacy. Highlighting common challenges and lessons, the report examines how each state has engaged key stakeholders, set rigorous goals and standards, aligned resources to support adolescent literacy goals, built educator capacity, and used data to measure progress.
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Cover Date:	April 2009
Web Release:	April 6, 2009
Publication #:	REL 2009067
Center/Program:	REL
Authors:	Lauren Bates, Nicole Breslow, and Naomi Hupert: Education Development Center, Inc.
Type of Product:	Issues and Answers Report
Keywords:	Achievement (Student) • reading Students • reading and writing
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