[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 2008-05-10 14:18:47 >Subject: Houghton Mifflin linked to Rdg First conflicts >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Readers, > >Senator Edward Kennedy just released a report on conflicts of interest by >administrators in the Reading First program. These were Directors, making >recommendations on programs to states, who were making money from the very >programs they were recommending. > >Read the copies of emails Dr. Douglas Canine sent to Houghton Mifflin >representatives when he found out the feds were on his trail. And, guess how >the HM rep replied? "The people with whom we would be talking would not be >that close to following this issue." She was talking about foisting her >program on a couple districts in California as a test run to see if there was >any push back about Carnine & the RF investigation. > >But she appeared confident that the people making the decisions about what's >best for kids in districts didn't have any idea what was really going on with >Reading First. That should not be a surprise. The students sitting in >classrooms across Illinois on Monday are bearing the burden of the way >business was conducted. > >Speaking of our students in Springfield, Dr. Torgeson, Technical Assistance >Dieector for Reading First, Eastern region, and currently Director of the >Florida Center for Reading Research was also part of Kennedy's investigation & >report, and the substantial conflicts of interest. Torgeson has not cut ties >to programs and companies, although it did appear he recused himself from >recommending HM to states at some point. So what is FCRR pedaling in the name >of reading instruction, and who will really benefit? > >The report is 17 pages, but be sure to look at the other files Kennedy's >office has put up for public scrutiny. The emails I reference above have been >photocopied at this web address: > >http://kennedy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Reading%20First%20Exhs%20%2023-42[5].pdf > >John Delich >Springfield Ball Charter School >Springfield, IL > >_______________________________________________________ >Sent through e-mol. E-mail, Anywhere, Anytime. http://www.e-mol.com
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