July 14, 2006

Weighing the 'Scale Up' Study

By DAVID GLENN

Education researchers examine how to assess the larger implications of successful small-scale studies

In a chilly portable classroom behind Dan D. Rogers Elementary School here, Dedee Hoops is leading four struggling first-grade readers through A Frog and a Dog, a book about two kids in animal costumes.

"I know what happens in this story," says one student, swinging his legs beneath his chair. "They're going to change heads!" (That turns out to be correct.)

When the

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