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SIL International has started to conduct and publish electronically detailed sociolinguistic studies; see http://www.sil.org/silesr/. These give clear and useful methodological information.
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See http://www.nabe.org/press/press9.html. An article by Michael Grunwald in the October 1 2006 in the Washington Post describes a report by the Inspector-General of the Department of Education on similar problems with Reading First.
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Spolsky, B. (2008). Investigating Language Education Policy. In: Hornberger, N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_243
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