I have finally gotten around to reading Jean Stockard’s rejoinder to the August 2008 analysis from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), which reported that the WWC failed to find sufficient evidence meeting its standards to merit identifying Reading Master, the Direct Instruction early literacy program. Professor Stockard’s analysis is instructive, both for what it says about Reading Master (and Direct Instruction) and what it says about the WWC.
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