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| | righttoreadproject.com
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| | I understand why advocates, researchers, and policymakers who feel the urgency of our literacy crisis are frustrated when teachers don't embrace reading science. But my entry into the world of read...
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| | 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 new podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an expose 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.
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| | Rebecca Redelmeier writes in Chalkbeat about passage of a new law in Pennsylvania mandating the use of "evidence-based" reading instruction. By that, they mean that teachers should teach reading by relying on what is called "the science of reading." This terminology is based on a federal report that was released to the public in 2000,...
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| [AI summary] A collection of news updates from West Virginia focusing on local schools, university announcements, educational funding, student stories, and community health topics.