Not for Publication
Education Department won’t put its stamp on English-learners report.
The Department of Education has spent $1.8 million for a panel of researchers to analyze studies on how English-language learners develop literacy, but has decided not to publish the resulting report.
Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, the director of the department’s Institute of Education Sciences, said the report didn’t stand up well in a peer review.
But Timothy Shanahan, the chairman of the National Literacy Panel, the committee of 13 researchers that studied the issue, said he thought the...
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