Well-meaning do-gooders with access to your wallet have failed – again, remarkably – to force distant external government to do that which is the responsibility of the individual and the family.
This article describes the wholly unsurprising failure of “Reading First” a federal reading program designed to help improve student reading comprehension.
The program, Reading First, was designed to help boost student performance in low-income elementary schools, but failed to improve reading comprehension, says the study from the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the Education Department.
There was no difference in comprehension scores between students who participated in Reading First and those who did not, the study found.
The findings released Thursday threw the program’s future into doubt.
Thank goodness for small favors; pity that it cost so much to learn an obvious truth. Our Founders knew that responsibilities belonging to the people had no business being co-opted by distant spheres of government. We’ll be forced to repeat this lesson until we insist our representatives adhere to the deliberate design and construction of the Constitution.