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Cochran Chairs Hearing to Review
Findings of National Reading Panel
Source: Office of Thad Cochran,
U.S. Senator, Mississippi
For Immediate Release Tuesday, April
11, 2000
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2000) –
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) will chair a hearing of
the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday, April 13th,
to unveil the report of the National Reading Panel.
The hearing will begin at 10:00 a.m. in room 124 of
the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The National Reading Panel, which was
established in 1998 at Senator Cochran's suggestion,
was created to analyze reading research and make recommendations
to Congress on how best to use the findings to improve
reading instruction in our Nation's schools.
Senator Cochran proposed the creation
of the panel after he discovered that important findings
of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD) research study had never been evaluated or passed
along to parents and teachers to improve reading instruction.
The study found that proper teaching methods have a
success rate of 90 percent and that reading readiness
and poor readers can be identified by simple assessments
at the kindergarten level costing only ten dollars per
student.
The following witnesses will
testify before the Subcommittee: Dr. Duane Alexander,
Director of the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development; Dr. Kent McGuire, Assistant Secretary
for Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department
of Education; and Dr. Donald N. Langenberg, Chancellor,
University System of Maryland and Chairman of the National
Reading Panel.
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