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reading first  

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  • The teaching of reading in the United States was given renewed focus in 2001 in response to the No Child Left Behind Act. Title I (Part B, subpart 1) of the Act establishes the $1 billion-a-year federally funded Reading First program. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Reading First]

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