a return to phonics, which they dismissed as "drill and kill."
// Dynamic Date Dreamweaver Object (c) 1999 Michael West, webmaster@mwwebdesign.com // Please report any bugs or improvement suggestions. document.write(" ") var mydate=new Date() var year=mydate.getYear() if (year ") Wednesday, July 27, 2005 July 27, 2005 Dubya's School Reform Pays Off By Debra Saunders For years, nothing helped. America's children weren't reading as well as they should. An achievement gap showed black and Latino students trailing behind their white counterparts in reading and... Sign in to see full entry.