May 25, 2007

E-Mail Messages Fuel Congressional Investigation of Reading Program

By DAVID GLENN

This month the chairman of the Senate education committee released dozens of recently unearthed e-mail messages between commercial publishers and scholars who have worked as federal contractors in the Reading First program. The Senate report threw fresh light on the conflict-of-interest allegations that have beset Reading First (The Chronicle, February 2), but it did nothing to settle the bitter debate about how the program's ground rules should change when it is reauthorized.

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