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8: The Impact

8: The Impact

FromSold a Story


8: The Impact

FromSold a Story

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
May 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Across the country, school districts are dropping textbooks, state legislatures are going so far as to ban teaching methods, and everyone, it seems, is talking about "the science of reading." Things have been changing since Sold a Story was released. In this bonus episode, we tell you about some of the changes and what we think about them. 
Read: Legislators look to change reading instructionMore: soldastory.org
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Blog: Seidenberg on translating research into practiceArticle: Goldenberg, Goldberg on premortem (paywall) | Excerpt
Released:
May 18, 2023
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.