U.S. Department of Education Awards Tennessee Reading Research Center $1.7 Million to Study Summer Reading Effects
Multi-Year Research Project Will Analyze Summer Reading Benefits and Losses in Grades K-5
Deborah Reed, Tennessee Reading Research Center director, is the recipient of a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. The project will review and meta-analyze two bodies of research: One on the summer learning effect and on the other on the effectiveness of summer reading interventions. The results of the four-year project could inform school planning for summer programs, existing policies on students’ summer learning, and the gaps in what we know about students’ reading achievement over the summer. Also partnering on this work are Terri Pigott from Georgia State University and the Tennessee Reading Research Center’s Research Assistant Professors Anna Gibbs and Huibin Zhang.
Find our more about the project here: https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=5972
The Tennessee Reading Research Center began in 2022 as a collaboration between the University of Tennessee System and the Tennessee Department of Education. It is the only reading research center in the country to connect multiple campuses within a university system. Collectively, faculty and staff bring expertise in reading development, writing development, early literacy, adolescent literacy, literacy for diverse learners, effective instruction, valid and reliable assessment, speech and language, educational technology for literacy, preparation of literacy educators, and literacy research methodology.
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Trace Riggs, Communications Specialist Manager
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