Check out the New York Times article by Sam Dillon
reporting on this study of Reading First.
An Initiative on Reading Is Rated Ineffective
By SAM DILLON
Published: May 2, 2008
President Bush’s $1 billion a year initiative to teach reading to low-
income children has not helped improve their reading comprehension,
according to a Department of Education report released on Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/education/02reading.html?em&ex=1209873600&en=7c271a31f425ba2f&ei=5087%0A
Send this link to all your friends and colleagues and have them spread
the news far and wide so the public comes to understand they have been
hoodwinked by the NCLB movement and its school change strategies.
As many of us suspected, the whole "research and science based"
approach to improving schools has been a sham from the beginning.
Given the failure of The Reading First director, Chris Doherty, to
achieve results with such programs in Baltimore before coming to
Washington to lead Reading First, it should come as no surprise that
the national effort has also been a failure.
Jamie McKenzie
Editor
No Child Left
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