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Center Receives 2 National Grants

Edward S. Shapiro, Professor in the school psychology program and director of the Center for Promoting Research to Practice received a U.S. Department of Education grant Project MP3: Monitoring Progress in Pennsylvania Pupils – A Multi-Tiered Model for Progress Monitoring from Preschool through Grade 4. The emphasis of the project is on demonstrating how a multi-tiered model designed to identify children at-risk for reading problems will be implemented from preschool (age 3) through grade 4 in six elementary schools and their feeder preschool programs across two diverse school districts. The project involves a partnership between Lehigh University’s Center for Promoting Research to Practice, the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Association Network, and two school districts; the Uniontown School District and the Central Dauphin Area School District. The three year grant is in the amount of $1.2 million.
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Dr. Edward S. Shapiro, Dr. Patricia Manz, assistant professor in the school psychology and Dr. Ageliki Nicolopoulou, associate professor of psychology were also awarded a subcontract to conduct program evaluation as part of the U.S. Department of Education Early Reading First – Program awarded to Community Services for Children, Inc., who provide Head Start programs in the Lehigh Valley. The Early Reading First program is part of the President's "Good Start, Grow Smart" initiative designed to transform existing early education programs into centers of excellence that provide high-quality, early education to young children, especially those from low-income families. In particular, Early Reading First targets the development of early literacy as a mechanism to prevent later reading challenges in children at-risk for academic skills problems. The three year grant totaled $300,000.
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Article written: January 2006