Solving our country’s literacy crisis will involve a lot more than simply publicizing the large body of evidence suggesting many schools are not deploying the best method of teaching reading. It also...
I used to harbor a lot of rage toward my son’s kindergarten teacher. When I first realized that my son, then a first-grader doing school remotely from our living room couch, couldn’t read even the...
Episode III of Emily Hanford’s latest podcast, Sold a Story, describes how New Zealander Marie Clay’s debunked theory of how children learn to read took hold in the United States. Two education...
Cora-Lisa Weathersby’s son Cameron loves to read. But last year, when the Jackson, Mississippi, third grader was assigned weekly passages of challenging text, filled with unfamiliar words, Weathersby...
Sold a Story, Emily Hanford’s most recent podcast about reading instruction in this country, opens with a story that is painfully familiar. Like Corinne Adams, the mom featured at the beginning of...
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