In 2006-7 the Spencer Foundation funded a team of researchers at National Louis University led by Professor Camille Blachowicz to study the impact of the Reading Program. Click here for a copy of the findings.
 
For 2008 the Spencer Foundation is funding a team of researchers from University of Illinois at Chicago, let by Professors Bill Teale and Taffy Raphael to study the impact of teachermates in selected first grade classrooms in Chicago. Their report will be available this summer. Click here for a copy of their proposal to the Spencer Foundation.

The report is now available! Click here for a copy of the report.
 
Professors Teale and Raphael Proposal to the Spencer Foundation
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Professor Blachowicz Report to the Spencer Foundation
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