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LC Accepted into CSRQ Report on Twenty-Two Elementary School Models
The Literacy Collaborative has been included in a newly revised, online guide to comprehensive elementary-school reform programs published by the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center (CSRQ) in Washington, D.C. CSRQ was funded by the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate the research on more than 100 school reform programs. Literacy Collaborative was chosen as one of the 22 comprehensive and widely used programs included in the guide. The revised version of the catalog is posted on the CSRQ website, www.csrq.org, under “Our Reports.” There is an extensive entry for the Literacy Collaborative. The CSRQ ratings were as follows:
CSRQ rated the Literacy Collaborative’s evidence of effects on student achievement as “Moderate.” We received this rating because we have only conducted a few studies so far that have had control groups of non-LC shools. (See “Studies Currently Underway” in the Research and Evaluation section of this website.) Of the 22 elementary school models CSRQ reviewed, they found no models to have “Very Strong” evidence of effects on achievement, two programs to have “Moderately Strong” evidence, and seven programs, including Literacy Collaborative, to have “Moderate” evidence. The other 13 programs were judged to have either “Limited” or no evidence of effects on achievement.
CSRQ rated Literacy Collaborative as having “Very Strong” evidence of having a research base (not only in the instructional components, but also in the evaluation, leadership, and professional development components).
CSRQ rated the the Literacy Collaborative’s ability to support implementation as “Very Strong.”
This is the second school reform catalog into which Literacy Collaborative has been accepted. In 2005, the program was accepted into the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory’s Catalog of School Reform Models. See our News Archive page for more information.