LindaMood Bell collects data and finds that LMB is succesful. Surprise!

Next funniest part of the article is that by statistics collected and compiled by LindaMood Bell employees LMB is helping students show reading improvements. Wow that's a big surprise. Not!

Classroom teachers are NOT allowed to select students to be helped by LMB consultants. No, the LMB folks take the students of their choosing, then do further "assessments", then the LMB folks come up with a "cohesive" group of students to "help". Interestingly no behavior problems are picked. No children who have a hard time sitting still in class are picked. The lowest children are never picked. The only children picked by LMB are children who will sit quietly and who are "on the cusp" of moving to the next reading level on California Standards Test. When there are only five levels reported on CST and you can easily move students from one level to next your statistics look really good.

But the children who need help the most. The lowest children who need one on one. The child who is unfocused in a large class of students with lots of distractions but who might do better in a small group, these are the students never picked by LMB folks.

This cherry picking was INDEPENDENTLY observed by elementary teachers all over the district. Teachers at each site at first thought that the cherry picking was only at their site but when teachers from different sites got together for buy back days or at VTA meetings and talked about the program the same pattern was found.