Partners in Learning

Reading Recovery, a focused one-on-one program for children who have difficulty learning to read, has shown an astounding level of effectiveness for a relatively new educational intervention. In Partners in Learning: Teachers and Children in Reading Recovery authors Carol A. Lyons, Gay Su Pinnell, and Diane E. DeFord, look thoroughly at this effective new program--the results of which have shown a greater than 90% success rate at raising "at-risk" learners to an average level of literacy in approximately 16 to 20 weeks of individualized instruction.

Carol A. ^Lyons is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Martha L. King Language and Literacy Center; Gay Su Pinnell and Diane E. DeFord are Professors in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice in the College of Education, all at Ohio State University