Posted on May 2, 2008 at 10:12 am by Liam Julian
Reading First
Regarding the just-released study of Reading First’s effectiveness, Mike tells USA Today that
...the study was poorly designed and “certainly not the last word on Reading First’s effectiveness.” For one thing, he says, researchers looked at “lackluster” Reading First schools that just barely qualified for grants, comparing them to schools that just barely missed getting grants.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
As Whitehurst rightly noted, Mike’s comment is not a valid criticism. If you want to establish the causal effect of an intervention, a discontinuity design is the right way to go.