Within the next five years, the POWER4Kids Initiative will have studied and compiled performance data on the most widely distributed and/or newly created scientific instruction and intervention reading programs used in this country.

The first goal of the POWER4Kids Initiative is to demonstrate with absolute evidence to the public, state and local policy makers that all—but a small fraction of children—can learn to read. The second goal is to dramatically reduce excessive societal costs by positively impacting the inverse relationships between education, criminality and poverty.

The Power4Kids Reading Initiative is the first independent nationwide initiative organized to dramatically alter the educational trajectory and the future outcomes for millions of American children. The study is the largest randomized, classroom-cluster design of its kind ever conducted and will:

• Give states new knowledge and the practical models they need to enact school reform and obtain measurable reading achievement for their student population who have been previously recalcitrant to improvement.
• Give school districts the data necessary to assess and forecast their school’s academic performance with certainty, as well as prepare their budgets for results-based accountability and student reading achievement.
• Establish measurable "Benchmarks and Standards" for appropriate reading growth for students previously thought to be beyond improvement.
• Develop a usable "Cost/Benefit Guide" on the best practices, programs, and the necessary teacher development components needed to make intelligent, results-driven decisions on the remedial reading programs for their schools. This will include measures of cost effectiveness, cost utility and cost benefit.
• Ascertain "Learning Profiles" of the most prevalent reading difficulties in children today, and identifies the best "Targeted-Intervention" methods to quickly improve the skills of all students who have fallen behind their grade-level requirements.

POWER4Kids will enable every community to maximize its children's education experience with tools that meet high standards of achievement.

POWER4Kids will help kids get connected in school and stay connected so that "No child is left behind."

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