Emily Hanford
@ehanford
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Lead Reporter and Host Sold a Story https://t.co/tFqf9me1aV Journalist-in-Residence, Planet Word https://t.co/BICnQHS572 Bluesky @ehanford, LinkedIn emilyhanford1
Washington, DC
Joined September 2008
Sold a Story has a new episode - #14. And we're working on Season 2. https://t.co/bP4riX6cgT
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This Saturday morning in Washington, DC, at @PlanetWordDC. I'd love to see you there. Come for the conversation with Reid Lyon and Margaret Goldberg. Stay for the museum of words and language! https://t.co/gnztJjjlsT
planetwordmuseum.org
In the early 2000s, neuroscientist Reid Lyon helped create Reading First, a massive federal effort to improve how children are taught to read. At the same time, teacher Margaret Goldberg…
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"Solitude, slowness and sustained attention are no longer default states but acts of resistance. And as those conditions erode, so too does the possibility of the moral work that deep reading once quietly performed.”
the74million.org
Doomscrolling. Poor literacy instruction. Overscheduling. These are some of the reasons cited for a generational decline in students reading for fun.
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Digital distractions are taking a toll, hijacking kids’ ability to engage their working memory on difficult texts and problems. That kind of laser-like focus is rapidly disappearing from our lives...
the74million.org
Doomscrolling. Poor literacy instruction. Overscheduling. These are some of the reasons cited for a generational decline in students reading for fun.
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"There’s this strange disappearance of humility before the incredible complexity of the world. It’s sort of an epidemic. The deep value in checking is just as a confirmation of how hard it is to know stuff."
newyorker.com
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
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In the past three years since Sold a Story’s first episodes came out, 26 states have enacted laws to better align reading instruction with scientific research.
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We've updated our story on states with new reading laws since Sold a Story. Now more than half the states. https://t.co/lDlYfY3Yyn
@CLPeak @ElizaBillingham
apmreports.org
At least 26 states have passed laws about how schools teach reading since APM Reports’ Sold a Story podcast began in 2022. But proponents of the disproven ideas about reading exposed in the podcast...
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Sold a Story was part of a longer reporting journey that started w/dyslexia, moved to core reading instruction and teacher prep, and got to core ideas and beliefs about reading and where they come from. You can find it all on our website and podcast feed.
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There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...
I just listened to the latest 'Sold a Story' podcast by @ehanford, which explores how to translate reading research into classroom practice—an important discussion. However, it overlooks a critical issue: most colleges of education ignore or dismiss this research entirely. This
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Yes. Please listen to Hard Words. https://t.co/v8jLwiKcw6 And there’s always more to report on.
apmreports.org
Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids...
I just listened to the latest 'Sold a Story' podcast by @ehanford, which explores how to translate reading research into classroom practice—an important discussion. However, it overlooks a critical issue: most colleges of education ignore or dismiss this research entirely. This
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Yes. Please listen to Hard Words. And there’s always more to report on.
apmreports.org
Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids...
@1in5advocacy @ehanford Teacher prep is a key issue, no doubt. I know that the series has touched on this before and hope they do again in the future.
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Fires can contaminate water with toxic chemicals which federally mandated testing is not designed to catch, An important story - especially if you live in an area with wildfires. From my colleague Jen Lu @apmreports.
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Fires can contaminate water with toxic chemicals which federally mandated testing is not designed to catch, An important story - especially if you live in an area with wildfires. From my colleague Jen Lu @apmreports.
apmreports.org
In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals which federally mandated testing is not...
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You might think the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Education are a good thing. You might think they’re a bad thing. But most people seem to agree that something big is happening here. Episode 14 of Sold a Story is available now.
apmreports.org
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“In order to put a good product up, you need a certain number of person-hours, and a certain amount of continuity and experience doing exactly this kind of job, and that’s what we lost,” Ho said.
apmreports.org
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is one of the few federal education initiatives that the Trump administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff...
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Researchers say the cancellations are already affecting other federally funded studies, as school districts are now hesitant to sign up for experiments that could be nixed midway through. https://t.co/oQ2xtmXIbI
apmreports.org
The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The...
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“The idea of a Department of Governmental Efficiency is an excellent idea, and I hope we try it out sometime,” he said. But "I would argue they’re doing the exact opposite.”
apmreports.org
For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so...
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"This very large, federal investment has created one spectacular breakthrough after another for decades." You're "dismantling a very large research enterprise that'll be very difficult to resurrect." New episode of Sold a Story:
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Want to give your child a leg up in kindergarten (and life)? Expose them to a million extra words. It’s easier than it sounds. I wrote recently about the vocabulary building power of reading aloud to your child. Books expose children to new worlds through their storytelling
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“The reduction — annihilation — of NCES functionally is a very serious issue. Maybe it doesn’t appear to be as sexy as other topics, but it really is the backbone of knowledge building and policymaking.”
apmreports.org
For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so...
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