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How Much Evidence is
Enough Evidence?
Literacy Scholars on the Influence of Reading Recovery

Dr. Richard Allington
University of Tennessee
"How Much Evidence Is Enough Evidence?" by Dr. Richard Allington
was published in the Anniversary Edition of the Journal of Reading
Recovery, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005.
Also available, the
streamed webcast
What Counts As Evidence?, recorded from a presentation by Dr.
Allington on February 4, 2007.
Dick Allington is a professor of education at the University of
Tennessee. He is the president-elect of the International Reading
Association and a former president of the National Reading
Conference. His extensive publications include Classrooms That
Work: They Can All Read and Write, and Schools That Work:
Where All Children Read and Write, both co-authored with Pat
Cunningham; No Quick Fix: Rethinking Reading Programs in American
Elementary Schools with Sean Walmsley; What Really Matters
for Struggling Readers; Reading to Learn: Lessons From Exemplary 4th
Grade Classrooms; and Big Brother and the National Reading
Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence.
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