No profit left behind?

Thanks to Allan Luke for alerting us to this story about the Bush family profiting from the 'No Child Left Behind' Act.

In England, the government are currently consulting on the development of a quality assurance scheme for commercial phonics programmes, given the recommendations made in the Rose Review Report about the value of synthetic phonics programmes. How many of those making representations to the Rose Review committee about the need to promote synthetic phonics will be able to profit from government endorsement of commercial phonics programmes, I wonder? A useful critical literacy project in schools would be to monitor this carefully...

Jackie