California’s $53 million investment in teaching its youngest and lowest-performing students to read has shown dramatic — and relatively fast — results, researchers at Stanford have found.
Seventy-five elementary schools benefited from a $50 million settlement of a lawsuit against the state; they were encouraged to adopt “science of reading” improvement strategies.
Research by Stanford University found that 75 of the lowest-performing California elementary schools that received funding from an out-of-court settlement made significant progress on third-grade state Smarter Balanced tests this year.
A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.