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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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nepc.colorado.edu
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| | | | | Suppose one tries to debate the Science of Reading (SoR) and what it is precisely. They will likely be met by cognitive psychologists, parents, and educators who are insistent about the importance of neuroscience. Trying to understand how the brain works and why some children have learning disabilities has existed for decades. I'm staring at an old textbook special education teachers used: Alexander Bannatyne's 1971Language, Reading, and Learning Disabilities: Psychology, Neuropsychology, Diagnosis, and Remediation. | |
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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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tultican.com
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| | | By Thomas Ultican 3/2/2020 The City Fund has joined the Walton Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in the upper echelon of spending to privatize public education. (Gates is in a spending zone of his own.) City Fund grants are of the same magnitude as CZI's and approximately half the size... | ||
