Introducing: Sold a Story
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Emily Hanford introduces the first episode of her new podcast, Sold a Story.
There\'s an idea about how children learn to read that\'s held sway in schools for more than a generation \\u2014 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, Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It\'s an expos\\xe9 of how educators came to believe in something that isn\'t true and are now reckoning with the consequences \\u2014 children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.
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