This isn't up to the usual quality of The Free Press. While teaching reading is very important and the reading problem is for certain, this podcast really fell short for me. While Ms. Hanford does a good job on the history of the problem, most of the podcast is her telling her opinions of everything about learning to read. Aren't opin…
This isn't up to the usual quality of The Free Press. While teaching reading is very important and the reading problem is for certain, this podcast really fell short for me. While Ms. Hanford does a good job on the history of the problem, most of the podcast is her telling her opinions of everything about learning to read. Aren't opinions what caused the problem in the first place? What are Ms. Hanford's qualifications to be handing out her opinions? Where are the facts and research about what DOES work to teach reading, and why? Why didn't she identify reading programs that do work, instead of just naming those that are suspect? Why didn't Ms. Herzog probe deeper on what works?
This isn't up to the usual quality of The Free Press. While teaching reading is very important and the reading problem is for certain, this podcast really fell short for me. While Ms. Hanford does a good job on the history of the problem, most of the podcast is her telling her opinions of everything about learning to read. Aren't opinions what caused the problem in the first place? What are Ms. Hanford's qualifications to be handing out her opinions? Where are the facts and research about what DOES work to teach reading, and why? Why didn't she identify reading programs that do work, instead of just naming those that are suspect? Why didn't Ms. Herzog probe deeper on what works?