DE Reading First students' motivation and opportunity to read: Student survey results

This study surveyed and compared reading motivation and reading behaviors of first, second, and third graders in Delaware Reading First (DERF) schools with that of similarly aged students in comparison schools and a national sample. Data for this study was gathered in the fourth year of DERF’s five year implementation and was used to answer broader questions of the program’s impact on students: Do Reading First students read more frequently? Are they more positively disposed toward reading

Pedagogical Change and Mourning in Elementary Teacher Education

Learning and mourning both entail renegotiating the sense of self in a changed world. We reflect on the "Science Semester", an inquiry-based course for prospective elementary teachers, by drawing on theories of mourning to address students' resistance to inquiry pedagogies not as deficits in students or curriculum, but as students meaningfully grieving the perceived loss of their good-student selves and dreams of being loving teachers. Questioning the impulse to make learning unproblematic, we consider possibilities for caring and renewal in inquiry pedagogies that elicit deeper inquiries into loss and mourning as conditions of teaching and learning

Evaluation of Delaware's State Improvement Grant Initiative - Year I- Outcome Evaluation Report

This project evaluates two major goals: improved literacy and reading skills for children with disabilities in preschool, kindergarten-3rd grade and 4th-12th; and all students with mild or moderate disabilities will gain access to, and progress in, the general curriculum. Since many of the activities were implemented for the first time in spring 2004, much of the data can be considered baseline.Delaware Department of Educatio