Would you spend $1 billion per year OF MY MONEY to learn to read?
Would you spend $1 billion per year OF MY MONEY to learn to read if your brother got the money?
President Bush’s $1 billion a year initiative to teach reading to low-income children has not helped improve their reading comprehension, according to a Department of Education report released on Thursday.
The program, known as Reading First… Congress included it in the federal No Child Left Behind legislation that passed by bipartisan majorities in 2001.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the education committee, and who has long criticized the program, said, “The Bush administration has put cronyism first and the reading skills of our children last, and this report shows the disturbing consequences.”
In 2006, John Higgins, the department’s inspector general, reported that federal officials and private contractors with ties to publishers had advised educators in several states to buy reading materials for the Reading First program from those publishers. New York Times, Sam Dillon, May 2, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/education/02reading.html?em&ex=1209960000&en=00fe28c576f100c9&ei=5087%0A
JUST A REMINDER...
Today's lawyers and politicians learned their trades years ago. From the textbooks of their day. Republicans and Democrats, lawyers to the core, absorbed their Three "Rs" based on the same set of premises. Do you really think that electing either will produce any "change"?
Future lawyers and politicians are learning their trades today. We're paying $1 billion a year for this. Do you really expect any change?
Some professions never change...
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
ONE BUMPER'S OPINION
My kid is an honor student
& my President is an idiot
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