Did the Department of Education Promote Specific Experts to Provide Professional Development?
One of the most remarkable elements of Reading First is its promotion of a limited number of professional development models for schools across the country. In most initial state Reading First applications, states proposed to use reading experts from their local universities. These were almost invariably rejected. Regardless of the qualifications of their state experts, states were routinely cautioned that “degrees do not equal expertise in SBRR.” Reviewer comments uniformly questioned the qualifications of anyone other than a set of “national experts.” In practice, our reviews of state Reading First proposals, federal reviews of those proposals, correspondence from state Reading First directors, and invoices for payment, make it clear that states primarily used three professional development providers: Louisa Moats and her LETRS program, published by Sopris West; Edward Kame’enui and Deborah Simmons and their Institutes on Beginning Reading; and Sharon Vaughn and adaptations of her Te
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- Does the state Department of Education provide professional development training to teachers and administrators?
- Did the U.S. Department of Education promote specific experts to provide professional development?
- Did the Department of Education Promote Specific Experts to Provide Professional Development?
