The study seems to be full of holes to me, such as the following attempt to divorce reading skills from writing skills:

Yet the study also found that the program did not help improve students’ scores on the city’s standardized English language arts test, a result that the study’s creators said they could not fully explain. They suggested that the disparity might be related to the fact that the standardized test is written while the study’s interviews were oral.

Read the rest of the article at The New York Times.

Tags: Education, literacy, Reading, Writing