Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can’t Really Read
Kids learn to read the old-fashioned way at Hobart Elementary School in 1999. (David Butow via Getty Images)
Emily Hanford reveals how America’s educators adopted a flawed system for teaching reading to kids—and, as a result, completely failed them.
Many parents saw America’s public education system crumble under the weight of the pandemic. Stringent policies—including school closures that went on far too long, and ineffective Zoom school for kindergarteners—had devastating effects that we are only just beginning to understand.
But, as with so many problems during the pandemic, COVID didn’t necessa…
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