Evaluation Services
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The purposes of the Striving Readers program are to raise the reading achievement levels of adolescent students in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade level and to help build a strong, scientific research base for identifying and replicating strategies that improve adolescent literacy instruction. Toward this end, funds awarded for the Illinois Striving Readers Project will be used to improve the literacy skills of ninth grade students in Title I-eligible schools who are reading two grades below level.
The evaluator will be expected to work collaboratively with staff from those schools chosen to participate in this project to access data regarding student achievement in order to better identify and assign struggling readers, to access information regarding the intervention implementation, and to gain access to other school personnel and classrooms. In addition, the evaluator will be expected to work closely with the Illinois Board project director and management and EDs technical assistance providers.
