CFDA Number: 84.371A
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Striving Readers aimed to

• Raise middle and high school students' literacy levels in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade-levels.
• Build a strong, scientific research base for identifying and replicating strategies that improve adolescent literacy skills.

Striving Readers projects, funded in 2009, included

• A supplemental literacy intervention targeted to students reading significantly below grade level;
• A strong experimental evaluation component.

Striving Readers projects, funded in 2006, included

• A supplemental literacy intervention targeted to students reading significantly below grade level;
• A school-wide literacy program for improving student literacy in all disciplines 2006 cohort.
• A strong experimental evaluation component.

• Cross-site Summary Tables of Striving Readers Projects (2006-11 cohort)
• Project Profiles: Literacy Models and Evaluation Designs (2006-11 cohort)
• Implementation Studies: Year One (SY 2006-07)
• Impact Studies: Years 1 and 2 (SY 2006-07; SY 2007-08)