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Direct linkMonastersky, Richard – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In 1989, Hallam Hurt, a neonatologist in Philadelphia, started recruiting poor inner-city women for a study of how cocaine use during pregnancy affects the developing fetus. Dr. Hurt enrolled women who had used cocaine while pregnant and balanced them against a control group of equally poor women who had not taken any drugs. Years later, when the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Correlation, Intelligence Quotient, Control Groups
Glenn, David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
This paper discusses a report released by the Education Department's Office of Inspector General regarding problems in the administration of the government's Reading First Program. Reading First is a $900-million-a-year program that was designed to improve reading instruction in low-income schools in kindergarten through third grade. According to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Emergent Literacy, Conflict of Interest, Research Reports
