Guess what? The big national education plan just ain’t workin’.
From the Associated Press today: “The $6 billion reading program at the center of President Bush’s signature education law has failed to make a difference in how well children understand what they read, according to a study by the program’s own champion — the U.S. Department of Education. The program, Reading First, was designed to help boost student performance in low-income elementary schools, but [...]
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Sandy // May 2, 2008 at 2:04 pm |
“IS our children learning?”….ARE our news people literate?” Sorry, but that stuck out like the proverbial sore thumb.
Doug Krile // May 2, 2008 at 2:21 pm |
Actually, that was the headline I pulled from the other blog. I think the blogger was being sarcastic.