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Changing Literacy Scores
- that the reading scores of young children in the U.K. dipped in the mid to late 80s but have since recovered (Brooks et al. 1996);
- that although the mean score of UK 15 year olds in ‘reading literacy’ was 7th highest out of the 32 OECD countries involved, above France and well above the US and Germany (OECD 2001) and the mean score for ten year olds was 3rd highest out of the 37 countries in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2003), England is set apart from other developed countries by a 'long tail of under achievement' in reading (Brooks et al. 1996);
- that such under achievement is associated less with particular approaches to reading instruction, than with the incidence of poverty (Lake 1991; Gorman and Fernandes 1992).
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