New Advocate is out and a little more on SMU --

Check out the new advocate. Interesting reading as always.

I said I would have more to say on SMU's school for NCLB. Here are two commentaries one from Assorted Stuff and one from Schools Matter. My brief research show me that so far what I am finding should not lead necessarily to scripted lessons.

Here's what a brief search of their website finds:

Most of the research titles look innocuous:
Reading Interventions for Students with Mental Retardation.(2005-09)
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Educational Science (IES)

English Language Learning/Literacy Acquisition (2004-08)
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Educational Science (IES)

Development of English Language Literacy in Spanish Speaking Children: Project DELLS
(SMU: 2004)National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

The suspect research that could or will lead to scripted lessons and/or more or as much time asseccessing as teaching are:

Scaling-up Effective Interventions for Preventing Reading Difficulties (2003-08)
U.S. Department of Education, Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI)

Continuous Monitoring of Early Reading Skills (CMERS) (2003)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Small Business and Innovation Research (SBIR Grant).

Texas Instruments Model Demonstration (2004-05)
Texas Instruments Foundation

This last one is especially scary because it is preschool.

The only published research I found shows that teacher directed activities and peer couching showed similar increases in learning. I hope to do more research on this after conferences are over.
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