The Nation - News from Feb. 3, 1986

A top Education Department official has accused the Educational Testing Service of making “misleading, oversimplified and speculative” claims about the impact of bilingual education on children’s reading. In unusually blunt correspondence, Chester E. Finn Jr., the assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, charged that the testing service’s government-financed study was seriously flawed and verged “on the irresponsible.”