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Peer reviewedLee, Lea; Gupta, Abha – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Reviews four major federal initiatives to improve early reading and literacy programs in the U.S.: Title One Reading program, the Reading Excellence Act, Even Start Family Literacy Program, and the Leave No Child Behind Act. Concludes that these expensive reading programs have not been very successful. (Contains 22 references.) (CAK)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Federal Government
