Dec 4, 2024 · Twenty-five state legislatures and countless school boards have acted over the past two years to move schools away from the discredited approach to teaching reading investigated in the APM Reports podcast Sold a Story.Now, two mothers in …

Nov 18, 2024 · A ‘reading reset’ Both Democrats and Republicans have been pushing efforts to base instruction on the science of reading. For example, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, wants to spend more than $160 million over two years to implement the science of reading statewide.The money would buy new curricula, train educators and hire 100 literacy coaches.

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Nov 1, 2024 · Nationally acclaimed journalist Emily Hanford's work is changing the ways schools around the country teach reading. In this award-winning podcast, she investigates why so many schools use an approach that cognitive scientists debunked decades ago.

Emily Hanford is a senior correspondent and producer at APM Reports and host of Sold a Story, the groundbreaking investigative podcast that’s changing how kids are taught to read. Sold a Story was one of the most-shared shows on Apple Podcasts in 2023 and one of Time Magazine’s top podcasts of the year. It has won numerous honors including a duPont, an Edward R. Murrow and a Peabody ...

Mar 20, 2024 · Maryland automatically charges more teens as adults than almost any other state. An analysis of recent decisions found that some judges rely on what juvenile justice advocates say is unfair reasoning to keep those young people in adult court.

Aug 22, 2019 · When kids struggle to learn how to read, it can lead to a downward spiral in which behavior, vocabulary, knowledge and other cognitive skills are eventually affected by slow reading development.3 A disproportionate number of poor readers become high school dropouts and end up in the criminal justice system.4 The fact that a disproven theory about how reading works is still driving the way many ...

Sep 10, 2018 · Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.

Jun 4, 2024 · In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones. June 4, 2024 | by Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu, and Rachel Lippmann Erica Jones speaks in February 2024 about the 2015 drive-by killing of her daughter Whitney Brown outside the Shulte Avenue home where the …

Aug 25, 2016 · Discipline has been part of American schooling from its beginning. The debate has been how it should be achieved. Some educators have believed in harsh discipline methods like corporal punishment, suspension or expulsion.