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| It's Never Too Late For Intervention | |
| Passport Reading Journeys has had a powerful impact on student performance at all grade levels. Both independent data and Voyager assessments confirm the effectiveness of Passport Reading Journeys. |  |
| National Results: Grades 6-9 | |
| After one year in Passport Reading Journeys, more students at each grade level finished the year reading within the grade level range. The chart below shows the percentage of students who were in the grade-level interquartile range at the beginning and end of the year. | |
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| Two Years Gain in One Year | |
 On the Gates-MacGinitie assessment, these ninth-grade students demonstrated two years of academic growth over just one academic year, moving from reading at a 5.96 grade level in Fall 2006 to 8.01 in Spring 2007. |
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| High-Stakes Achievement | |
| Students in Dallas, Texas, showed outstanding gains on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). | |
 Eighty-three percent of students in Passport Reading Journeys passed the ELA strand of the TAKS at the end of ninth grade. Forty-five percent of these students passed the assessment the previous year. |
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| High School Students | |
While Passport Reading Journeys was created with middle school students in mind, there are circumstances when school districts have found Passport Reading Journeys to be appropriate for high school students as well. The charts below show Lexile gains for high school students in Passport Reading Journeys.  After approximately 30 weeks in the program, tenth graders gained 169 Lexiles, 139 Lexiles more than the expected gain for these students. |
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| Voyager had a significant impact on the students' improved scores on the SOL. Passport Reading Journeys incorporated manufacturing and economics and really piqued students' interest because it was something they could relate to, but had not yet thought about. They learned through individual reading, small group sessions, DVDs, and the [online] technology component. Passport Reading Journeys really encourages cross-curriculum learning . . . in the way the stories are presented, and that makes a difference in how students learn. | |
| Paul D. Britt, Jr., Principal Vernon Johns Middle School Petersburg City Public Schools Petersburg, Virginia |
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