Researchers' extra help eliminates reading gap for most young students

A research project that offered extra help to struggling young readers in Edmonton schools has prompted teachers and principals to try the approach more widely.
“We didn’t expect it to be as successful as it was,” said George Georgiou, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Alberta and lead researcher of the Edmonton part of the study.
Done in partnership with a colleague at McGill University, Georgiou’s study started in September 2015  and screen