"Students enrolled in a $6 billion federal reading program that is at the heart of the No Child Left Behind law are not reading any better than those who don't participate, according to a U.S. government report."
Read the article here.
And more here.
The report:
Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report
2 comments:
Why is it that the Washington Post article says "$6 billion" at the beginning and "$1 billion" later in the same article. I can only assume that the $6 billion is the total spending since NCLB was formed, but it still begs the question as to why would someone mention the total amount spent unless they wanted to bend facts to make things sound worse than they actually are. The second article mentions the "$1 billion a year" amount without referencing the presumable total $6 billion spent.
I don't see anything about $6 billion in the ED WEEK article; this looks odd to me, also. I will add that journalists want to make everything BIG but not sure if this is careless, unclear, or purposefully misleading. . .
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