Doug Lemov on Reading

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🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Doug Lemov of Uncommon School and co-author of Reading Reconsidered talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reading. Lemov makes the case for the educational importance of critical reading of challenging books and texts. Along the way, he gives listeners some ideas of how to read themselves and gives parents some ideas for how to educate their children.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.9	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.9	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.7	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.9	going back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.6	Today is October 31, 2016, and my guest is Doug Lemoff, author, educator, and educational
0:40.3	entrepreneur.
0:41.6	He's a managing director at Uncommon Schools, the author of Teach Like a Champion.
0:45.8	And his latest book written with calling, Driggs, and Erickle Wohlway is reading, reconsidered,
0:50.8	a practical guide to rigorous literacy instruction.
0:55.0	He was a guest on econtalk in December of 2013, when we talked about teaching.
0:59.3	And today we're going to talk about reading.
1:01.3	Doug, welcome back to econtalk.
1:03.0	Thanks, Russ.
1:04.0	Great to be back.
1:05.0	And this book is written for teachers, but I found it of great interest as a parent, and
1:10.2	I think, for anyone who cares about education generally.
1:13.5	And it deals with an issue we've talked about a lot on this program, which is mastery and
1:17.7	grappling deeply with something.
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