Research

This report summarizes the most recent research, surveys, and advice from educational experts to outline the best criteria for administrators to use when making their curricular decisions for next year.

A real-time national education study of more than one million students by two leading not-for-profit education groups has found that continued engagement with technology-enabled instruction during COVID-19 school closures has significantly reduced students’ loss of potential reading growth.

Real-time data for 1.6 million students across 1,364 districts engaged in remote instruction since schools were forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic shows that students are on track to lose up to 49% (about 5 months) of their potential reading growth by the start of next school year. In addition, this study revealed that the achievement gap between students from lower- and higher-income schools is predicted to widen by up to 18%.

While many solutions have been proposed to address the performance gap, the most effective approach has been to focus on early intervention for all readers to bolster students’ knowledge of five fundamental components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Read more about how Smarty Ants is specifically designed to meet these needs.

Want a better understanding of how Lexile levels are identified and growth is predicted within Achieve3000’s core literacy platform? Increase your knowledge about how and why Lexile measures are such an effective tool for measuring and accelerating students’ literacy growth.

This paper from Actively Learn explores how achieving depth in reading means getting beyond the gist and making the text one's own. Depth entails understanding the reading thoroughly and being able to discuss it, analyze it, and question it in a sophisticated way.

Achieve3000 partnered with MetaMetrics^®, developers of the Lexile Framework for Reading, to help educators gain a deeper understanding of new challenges presented by college and career readiness standards, identifying strategies for setting growth targets, and analyzing student gains.

Achieve3000 provides any International Baccalaureate program with the support needed to reach every learner through embedded reading intervention, critical thinking supports, argumentative writing and speaking practice, and an inquiry-based approach.

Achieve3000 Literacy is built on decades of scientific research into how learners develop essential reading and writing skills from widely respected researchers in the field of reading, including Dr. Robert Marzano, Dr. R.C. Anderson, Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, Dr. Michael Kamil and more.

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL^®) is widely regarded as one of the most respected assessments of English language skills. The family of TOEFL tests is used by more than 9,000 colleges, universities, and agencies in more than 130 countries, including Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the United States.

Achieve3000’s mission is to work together with educators to unlock potential and accelerate learning for every student, including those with dyslexia and other reading challenges. Used as a complementary solution to the Orton-Gillingham's direct and explicit instructional approach, our Smarty Ants and Achieve3000 Literacy solutions deliver age-appropriate texts on each student's reading level to build comprehension and fluency as they also develop excitement about reading.