March 9, 2007
Report Faults U.S. Reading Program
The U.S. Education Department "did not adequately assess issues of bias and lack of objectivity" during the early days of the Reading First program, according to a report issued last month by the department's inspector general.
The report is the latest in a series of critical accounts of Reading First, a $900-million-a-year component of the No Child Left Behind Act.
The Reading First program, which provides grants to improve reading instruction in low-income schools in
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