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Fred Carrigg

special assistant, Urban Literacy, Union City

http://www.edutopia.org/fred-carrigg

Fred Carrigg is currently "on loan" to the New Jersey Department of Education as the New Jersey Director of Reading First. He is working with the state to restructure reading programs in impoverished districts, thereby reducing the number of children reading below grade level by 30% within 3 years. [more]

Abbott Districts: Better Funding, Better Achievement

Gordon MacInnes

March 16, 2006

01:34:05

The Harvard Graduate School of Education hosts a forum focusing on New Jersey's Abbott Districts, where state aid, resulting from thirty years of legal challenges, makes average per pupil spending higher now than it is in the state's suburbs.

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