Bill Clinton: “Who picked this questioner? [Laughter] [At this point, Ms. Shackelford, a reading specialist, expressed the faculty's…”

“Who picked this questioner? [Laughter] [At this point, Ms. Shackelford, a reading specialist, expressed the faculty's conviction that students could learn to read by the end of the third grade. She described the Reading Recovery program, focusing on building on the strengths of the weakest first grade students, and the Excel Saturday program, consisting of high school student and teacher volunteers tutoring elementary school children on Saturdays. Ms. Shackelford then said more funding was needed to expand the outreach of the programs and suggested scholarships for high school tutors.]”