In the Dark presents the first episode of “Sold a Story,” an award-winning investigative podcast that is changing how children are taught to read. In this episode, “The Problem,” a mother watches her son's first-grade lessons during Zoom school and discovers with dismay that he can’t read. Her son isn’t the only one: more than a third of fourth graders in the United States can’t read on even a basic level. In “Sold a Story,” the host, Emily Hanford, exposes how educators came to believe in a method of teaching reading that doesn’t work, and are now reckoning with the consequences. “Sold a Story” is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more at soldastory.org.
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Hey, in the Dark listeners, it's Madeline.
I'm coming to you today because I wanted to bring you another podcast I think you would really enjoy.
It's done by a former colleague of mine, an amazing reporter named Emily Hanford at American Public Media.
And it's all about how the way that so many children in our country are taught to read is just wrong.
This reporting has had a huge impact.
It's now changing the way that reading is taught in classrooms across the country.
The podcast is called Sold a Story and we're going to play the first episode for you here.
Here's the show.
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I got this recording from the US Department of Education.
They give a reading test every two years to a sample of kids.
Most guide dogs are born at a kennel.
This is a fourth grader who did well on the test reading a passage about guide dogs.
The dogs train in large groups for.
About three months, but most kids don't do well on this test.
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