I'm writing off the report, not Reading First
I finally forced myself to sit down and read the Institute of Education Science's interim report on Reading First. If you pull it down from the web you'll see why I had to force myself. It is written in almost incomprehensible language, which may explain why so few reporters seemed to understand that it does not prove, as so many articles have said, that Reading First has had no effect on reading.
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