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Advancing American Reading Achievement During the Great Depression is a 1939 comparative study of the reading achievements of seventh grade white and African American children in segregated Nashville, Tennessee schools.
This 1939 study on measuring and improving reading skills was conducted by Dr. Larry Jordan Willis, a renowned Nashville educator from the 1930's to the 1960's. It reports the results of his PhD research at Peabody College for Teachers, where he received his PhD prior to taking the job of Supervisor of Elementary Schools for the Nashville City School system. The PhD thesis is presented in full detail, complete with all data tables and statistical analysis. Only a condensed version of this work has been previously published.
Because the finding were so remarkably promising, notably for the African American children, Howard Ray White has published the entire work in 2010. Furthermore, White has added information at the front and the back of the book to help today's readers comprehend the importance of Dr. Willis's work in providing guidance to those struggling to solve today's problems with How to Teach Johnny to Read.
This book includes a 1939 survey of pubished studies on teaching children to read, a revealing analysis of the 1939 classroom and home environments, and a detailed report on Dr. Willis's innovative, ten-week, remedial reading program, utilizing then-new instruction techniques and modern statistical analysis, which significantly advanced reading performance of both races, their group average scores improving by at least 0.4 and as much as 0.7 grade years.
Howard Ray White, an historian and author of several paper books and e-books available on Amazon.com, has been married to Dr. Willis's daughter for 51 years. The originial title of Dr. Willis's thesis was A Comparative Study of the Reading Achievements of White and Negro Children
The 2010 publication of Dr. Willis's work is available also as an e-book.
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Dr. Larry Jordan Willis, known as L. J. Willis, was born to a farm family in upstate South Carolina in 1903 and, as a young educator of great promise, moved to Nashville, Tennessee to teach and work toward his PhD degree at Peabody College for Teachers.
His PhD thesis work was conducted in 1939 in several seventh grade classes in segregated Nashville City schools. Dr. Willis took the position of Supervisor of Elementary Schools in the City system immediately afterward, a position he held for 24 years.
After that he was chairman of the department of education at Belmont College for 7 years, retiring in 1970. He died in Nashville in 1981.
Except for a 1939 trade journal publication of a condensed version of his PhD thesis, Dr. Willis did not author any books.
His son-in-law, Howard Ray White, a great admirer of Willis's work, is publishing the thesis in 2010, with added commentary, thereby providing a window into the world of teaching in segregated schools during the Great Depression, an era of great hardship.
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