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5: The Company

5: The Company

FromSold a Story


5: The Company

FromSold a Story

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Nov 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Teachers call books published by Heinemann their “bibles.” The company’s products are in schools all over the country. Some of those products are rooted in a debunked idea about how children learn to read. But they’ve made the company and some of its authors millions.
Map: Heinemann’s national reachRead: Transcript of this episodeMore: soldastory.org
Released:
Nov 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (17)

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.