The podcast that's changing education

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Speaker 6 Hi, I just had to tell you that I think your podcast has changed my life.

Speaker 7 I'm Emily Hanford.

Speaker 6 I'm a reporter. Your podcast shined a light on something I've been trying to tell people for the last 11 years of my teaching career.

Speaker 7 I've been covering education for years, but the podcast Solda Story has had more impact by far than anything else I've done.

Speaker 1 You have changed the way that I will teach, and I'm very grateful for that.

Speaker 7 The show reveals a major problem with the way many schools teach kids how to read.

Speaker 2 It didn't seem like they were really teaching them to read. It seemed like they were teaching them to sound like they could read.

Speaker 8 I said to my son's teacher, I was like, this isn't how we learned how to read, like, meaning me and her. Like, this can't be right, right?

Speaker 7 It all goes back to a flawed idea about how reading works. We're going to see if the picture helps us to figure out what that word would be.

Speaker 9 You could tell them to look at the first letter and it'll pop out of your head if you're looking at the picture as well.

Speaker 7 This idea, this theory, was debunked decades ago by cognitive scientists.

Speaker 2 At its core, the theory was inaccurate.

Speaker 7 Now some kids will learn to read well no matter how they are taught, but lots of kids won't.

Speaker 3 He doesn't look at all the letters and words. He doesn't look at all the the words and sentences.
And reading is miserable for him.

Speaker 2 The kids struggle and they suffer.

Speaker 6 Josh.

Speaker 2 Kids are telling you that they're a defective person who is stupid and hates school and never wants to do anything with reading ever.

Speaker 7 What I'm haunted by is when it wasn't working, I blamed it on children. Solda's story investigates how that happened.

Speaker 8 How did someone convince so many people that this is good and right?

Speaker 7 The podcast is changing the way lots of schools teach reading.

Speaker 7 At least 25 states have passed new laws since Solda's story.

Speaker 3 We need to improve reading in Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 We have gotten this wrong in New York and all across the nation. I'm calling for a renewed focus on literacy and on the way we teach reading in the state of Ohio.

Speaker 7 Solda's Story has won some of the biggest awards in journalism. And now, Apple Podcasts has made the show part of a new collection it's calling Series Essentials.

Speaker 7 Apple editors hand-picked these essential podcasts because they hook you from start to finish.

Speaker 6 I like literally drove an hour the wrong direction because I was so captivated from the first episode. I just felt like, oh my goodness, I am not crazy.
It's not just me.

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