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A study investigated the achievement of sixth-grade students in an integrated language arts curriculum. Subjects, 228 students in two schools in Southwestern Kansas, were divided into a treatment group of 128 students (who were taught using an integrated approach to language arts instruction) and a control group of 100 students (who were taught using a traditional approach). The independent variables were approach to instruction, gender, socioeconomic status, and race. The dependent variables were scores from the following scales of the California Achievement Test, Fift