29.035 - ACCESS Matters: Student Achievement Through Robust Adolescent Literacy and Professional Development Programs Is the Path to Academic Success

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The growing intensification of high-stakes testing makes the achievement gap both more glaring and more consequential. One fundamental cause of the gap is disparities in literacy achievement. Although research has taught us much about what is needed to learn to read words off a page, it has provided much less knowledge about effective means of helping students learn to read to learn. There are no quick fixes to the challenges facing literacy education, but in response to the ever evolving complexity of the education landscape driving new approaches to teaching and learning the challenges are escalating with high stakes consequences. Where there is a will to invest, there are solutions with solid foundation for accessible, cost-effective, inquiry-based professional learning.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools

Chair

• Sharon Marie Saez, WestEd

Participants

• Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, San Francisco State University

• Cynthia L. Greenleaf, WestEd

• Stephanie Wood-Garnett, Alliance for Excellent Education

Discussant

• Paul LeMahieu, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching