Achievement data from Reading First program are on the way; so are congressional hearings

 The next year and a half should bring a flood of data about the effects of the federal Reading First program, but most of those studies are not quite ready to be released, two scholars said recently at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives education committee announced a list of people who will testify at an April 20 hearing on allegations of mismanagement and conflicts of interest in the program. Read more of this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education.