“…More specific analyses of the impact of the district's efforts on students' reading achievement, however, can be found in a series of technical reports produced by the High Performance Learning Communities Project ~Harwell, D'Amico, Stein, & Gatti, 2000;Resnick & Harwell, 1998;Stein, Harwell, & D'Amico, 1999!, the most recent of which provides specific evidence regarding the impact of Balanced Literacy on students' achievement as measured by standardized tests ~D'Amico, Harwell, Stein, & van den Heuvel, 2001!. Using multilevel models of student achievement, the authors indicate the relationship between students' socioeconomic status and their reading achievement is weakened in cases where teachers report that the Balanced Literacy Program is an important guiding framework in their day-to-day professional lives.…”