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The Lexile Framework for Reading is an educational tool in the United States that uses a measure called a Lexile to match readers with reading resources such as books and articles. Readers and texts are assigned a Lexile score, where lower scores reflect easier readability for texts and lower reading ability for readers.
Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities is a 2017 book by Daniel Golden, published by Henry Holt and Company. It describes relations between American educational institutions and the U.S. intelligence community .
READ 180 was founded in 1985 by Ted Hasselbring and members of the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University.With a grant from the United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education, Dr. Hasselbring developed software that used student performance data to individualize and differentiate the path of computerized reading instruction. [3]
While young children display a wide distribution of reading skills, each level is tentatively associated with a school grade. Some schools adopt target reading levels for their pupils. This is the grade-level equivalence chart recommended by Fountas & Pinnell. [4] [5]
The study avoided a single standard of literacy, assessing individuals in three aspects of literacy with each aspect defined on a 500-point scale. Scores in each aspect (prose, document, and quantitative) were grouped in five levels: level 1 (0-225), level 2 (226-275), level 3 (276-325), level 4 (326-375), and level 5 (376-500).
"The Flesch–Kincaid" (F–K) reading grade level was developed under contract to the U.S. Navy in 1975 by J. Peter Kincaid and his team. [1] Related U.S. Navy research directed by Kincaid delved into high-tech education (for example, the electronic authoring and delivery of technical information), [2] usefulness of the Flesch–Kincaid readability formula, [3] computer aids for editing tests ...
Spy School (known internationally as Doubting Thomas or Lies and Spies) is a 2008 American comedy-drama film, released on March 1, 2008. [1] Even though it was a 2008 release, it was first filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the summer of 2005. The film stars Forrest Landis and AnnaSophia Robb as the lead characters. The movie focuses on the ...
The Palmetto Assessment of State Standards reports out Lexile measures for every student. [3] A Lexile measure can be used to match readers with targeted text and monitor growth in reading ability . External links