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Climate change vs schools
Climate change is already affecting America’s children, disrupting their learning and devastating school infrastructure. We explore its future toll on kids and how the education system can adapt.
Child care in shambles
The coronavirus pandemic has strained the already fragile child care industry. Without government support, it’s likely to topple.
The Sold A Story podcast
For more than a generation, children have been taught to read using the “three cueing system,” even though it was debunked by cognitive scientists decades ago. In this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this approach and the company that sells their work.
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Inside the podcast that reignited the reading wars
OPINION: A call for rejecting the newest reading wars
OPINION: For the students we wish we’d taught better
OPINION: Parents say enough with the strawmen, fix reading education based on the science
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