Much of our education system bought into a disproven idea of how kids learn to read. For 2+ years, @ehanford and I tried to figure out how and why. I’m so excited to share what we’ve found. The first episodes in our six-part podcast drop tomorrow.

In a major victory for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court let it fire more than a thousand Education Department employees and functionally eliminate the agency.

Research doesn't support using "multisensory" instruction to teach reading, but it's being legislated. "Not that doing multisensory things is going to be harmful," one expert said, but don't expect "those are going to make the difference.".

In 2014, 11% of children ages 0 to 2 in the UK spent one to three hours a day on a screen. By 2019, that percentage rose to 42%, according to the National Literacy Trust.

Success for All, the school reform model featured in Sold a Story, received $13.5 million from an anonymous donor to expand to 150 more schools.

NPR and three public radio stations sue President Trump, alleging his executive order to cut off federal funding violates the Constitution and their First Amendment rights.

Educational malpractice claims are almost always dismissed. The judge said this case was no different.

A putative class action against an educational publisher was quickly dismissed.

“We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” one college professor said, of students’ reliance on ChatGPT. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”

I couldn’t be more happy for the @InTheDarkTNY team, which has always set the bar for investigative podcasting. Huge congrats to @madeleinebaran, @sfreemark, @parkeryesko, @natjablonski, @RehmanTungekar and @C_E_Winter on the Pulitzer!.

RT @Laurietoddsmith: RT @ehanford: This part of the story is so important! States need to know that a "green" rating does not guarantee t….

RT @S_Oberle: How many students have been on the receiving end of just plain lousy curriculum because leaders abdicated their due diligence….

RT @ehanford: Many schools rely on an organization called EdReports when deciding which reading programs to purchase. But there's a problem….

Harvard officials were shocked that such an important letter — bearing the logos of three government agencies, with signatures of three top officials at the bottom — could be sent by a mistake.

For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.

Sold a Story was featured in this weekend’s New York Times: “This American Public Media podcast lays out how a deeply flawed teaching method took hold despite having been widely debunked by cognitive scientists.”

RT @The74: .@rpondiscio: Three new episodes of Emily Hanford’s groundbreaking 'Sold a Story' podcast about reading success in Steubenville,….

RT @maxwelltani: New: NPR's standards editor seemingly accidentally sent an email to the entire newsroom today advising All Things Consider….

RT @eduleadership: These are so good! Success for All is quietly working in over 800 schools.

RT @mmoriarty61: This three part series is important. It highlights: 1/4.

RT @ehanford: New today from @CLPeak A look at a EdReports, one of the most powerful gatekeepers influencing the instructional materials sc….