Federal Official Says Reading Commission Will Move Forward
The Commission on Reading Research will be appointed later this year, a U.S. Department of Education official said this week, easing concerns that the long-awaited review panel could be abandoned after years of planning.
In December, the Education Department halted a planned announcement of the 15-member commission after a lengthy recruitment process, saying it had not been decided whether the group would be formed.
“It’s gonna happen.We’re working very, very hard to get it done,” Troy R. Justesen, the assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, said this week. Mr. Justesen’s office oversees the National Institute for Literacy, a federal agency that began planning for the commission more than four years ago. After a series of stops and starts, the institute had reached agreements with 15 researchers and reading experts to...
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