The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reading First Program Draws Fresh Criticism in GAO Report

The Government Accountability Office released a report this afternoon that criticizes the lack of written guidelines for carrying out Reading First, a $900-million-a-year program that offers states ...
City Journal

Reading First Still Works

The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) was established in 2002 as a quasi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Education. One of its legislative mandates was to encourage the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Report Criticizes Failure to Police Bias in Federal Reading First Program

The U.S. Department of Education “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 on Thursday by the ...
The Washington Post

Bush Aide Defends Reading Program

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is sending a message to educators across the country who support a federal program to help young children learn to read: "Fight fiercely." Late last year, the ...
The Washington Post

Reading First Paying Off, Education Dept. Says

Students in the Bush administration's embattled $1 billion-a-year reading program have improved an average of about 15 percent on tests measuring fluency over the past five years, according to an ...
The Hill

How We Can Improve ‘Reading First’ (Rep. Howard ‘Buck’ McKeon)

Congress embraced Reading First when we crafted the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 because we agreed it was time for our nation to commit to scientifically-based reading instruction as part of our ...
c-span

Reading First Program Oversight, Part 1

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MLive

Letter: Reading First program

Agreement with The Press is not a regular occurrence, however, your editorial "Reading First needs more study" (Feb. 18), I found common ground with. Having been a literacy coach with Reading First, I ...
Education Week

With Reading First Under Fire, Supporters Rush to Its Defense

The future of NCLB’s Reading First program is in jeopardy. It’s been a target of Democrats since they won the majority of Congress in 2007. Last week’s Department of Education report is the latest ...
Education Week

Spellings Tries to Rescue ‘Reading First’

Maybe the hidden budget data are right. The mysterious spreadsheet with a covert column listing FY09 numbers suggested that President Bush would propose $1 billion for the Reading First program. It’s ...
Arizona Daily Star

$6B reading program challenged

WASHINGTON — 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 ...