Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$175,652.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

National Assessment of Educational Progress statistics show that 68% of young adolescents in Grade 8 were at or below Basic, and more than 50% have very low motivation for school reading. To study this crisis of low literacy in middle school students, we