Scholars Deny Conflicts of Interest in Their Work With Reading First Program

The federal Reading First program's early work involved such severe conflicts of interest that it was "cooked from the very beginning" and seemed "close to a criminal enterprise," the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' education committee said during a hearing in April.

The chairman, Rep. George Miller, directed most of his ire at the program's former director, Christopher J. Doherty. But Mr. Miller and other members of the committee also intensely questioned three

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