Interview with Reid Lyon: Reading First is the largest concerted reading intervention program in the history of the civilized world. (Note comments at the end)
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Fordham Demands Investigation Into Real Reading First Scandals
March 10, 2008
Calls for Secretary Margaret Spellings, Rep. David Obey and ED's Office of the Inspector General to account for their actions
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An On-Going Conversation with Reid Lyon: About Reading First
April 2-4, 2008 (A Three Part Series)
The Stern Report and the Fordham Foundation correctly pointed out that many of these untruths led to the slashing of the budget for a program that was doing very good things for the poor kids around the country while at the same time increasing funding for the Title I program — A program that has never undergone serious evaluation of effectiveness and was and is simply an entitlement program that has squandered billions of tax payer dollars over the years."
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U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
Highlights Success of No Child Left Behind
at Reading First State Directors Conference
March 6, 2008
In her remarks, Secretary Spellings highlighted dramatic gains that students and schools have made with the help of the Reading First Program, which translates decades of scientific research into practical tools for teachers.
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Too Good to Last: the TRUE STORY of Reading First
March 2008
by Sol Stern
Foreword by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Michael J. Petrelli
Thomas B. Fordham Institute,
Scientific Research and Schools of Education
January 2008
"Sad to say, the colleges of education are the problem, not the solution to good schooling. Accountability should begin with them. The medical model of research should apply to our schools of education first"
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Reading First's Christmas Massacre
January 2008
The cut to Reading First's budget comes just as states are reporting more interest in the program than ever before.
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