MD: Reading Plus Program Achieves Highest ESSA Evidence Tier, Approved for Baltimore Schools
February 1, 2021
Reading Plus, an online program that provides “personalized intervention and instruction for students” in reading and literacy, has been approved as a research-backed resource in Baltimore City Public Schools – a district that serves nearly 80,000 students. The program has achieved the highest level of evidence required by the Every Student Student Succeeds Act, having completed a “well-designed and well-implemented experimental study.” The program claims to be able to help students increase reading proficiency by as much as 2.5 grades in a single academic year.