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LINKS RELATED TO NCLB AND "READING FIRST

STOPPING THE NCLB / The current focus is misplaced.

Inspector General (IG) Report Says Education Officials Violated Rules with regard to "Reading First"
1) September 23, 2006 / By SAM DILLON / NY Times
2) Download a PDF of the IG Report
3) Read what the Associated Press says about the IG report.
4) Read what the Executive Director of the International Reading Association has to say about the IG report in a letter to the U.S. Attorney General
5) National Council of Teachers of English respond to the Inspector General's report on Reading First
6) "Reading First" -- Criticized in the Washington Post

Related links:

• NCLB: Click here to download the COMPLETE TEXTof the act: a 670 page PDF
• NCLB leads to "Rationing Education" / By Jennifer Booher-Jennings ."Schools get no credit for moving a student from a 15 to a 69, or from a 70 to a 95. Yet if educators nudge a student from a 69 to a 71, the school's passing rate increases."
• NCLB is an educational train wreck: by Marion Brady
• NCLB Atrocities: Lists hundreds of articles.
• NCLB Analysis: National Council of Teachers of English / Resolution on the Reading First Initiative
  (http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/gov/107475.htm)
• NCLB Outrages / Pretending To Care!
• Read what Sam Farr says about NCLB: Sam Farr is a Democrat who represents the 17th District (central California coast) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Ohanian, Susan : We haven't checked this site thoroughly -- but it certainly looks worthwhile at first glance. << http://www.susanohanian.org >> Susan Ohanian says the following describes her site. "Susanohanian.org is a child-advocacy site, opposing high stakes testing, NCLB, and scripted curriculum."
• No college student left behind? / Editorial, / Thursday, September 28 / Bennington Banner - Bennington,VT,USA / home to Bennington College