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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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For decades, American schools have taught reading with an approach that doesn’t work very well. Emily Hanford of the podcast “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” explains how things are starting to change. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King. We're taking Monday off for Juneteenth and will be back with a new episode on Tuesday, June 20. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization called the National Council on Teacher
0:06.7	Quality released a big report with a notable finding.
0:11.2	40% of teacher training programs in the United States are using outdated methods to teach
0:17.5	teachers to teach kids how to read.
0:20.6	The knock-on effect of this has been lots of schools in this country are not teaching kids
0:26.2	how to read.
0:27.2	Which is sort of shocking to hear, but it's true.
0:30.1	Kids all over the country are not being taught how to read in ways that line up with what
0:34.6	cognitive scientists and others have figured out about how reading actually works.
0:39.0	How reading actually works.
0:41.3	Reporter Emily Hanford spent the better part of a decade looking into it, and guess what
0:45.4	she and many others found is the key.
0:48.6	It's our next coming up on today's point.
0:55.6	What are those pulses indicate?
1:07.8	The beeps and blips we don't know.
1:09.4	There's an alien.
1:10.4	That actually happened.
1:12.5	This June, place all witnesses under a group arrest.
1:15.3	How long can they keep us in asteroid city?
1:17.2	I'm gonna know.
1:18.2	I like aliens.
1:19.2	Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks.
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