Emily Hanford

Emily Hanford appears in the following:

Have We Been Learning to Read Incorrectly?

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

A new podcast from APM Reports looks at the history of literacy education in America.

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A popular program for teaching kids to read just took another hit to its credibility

Thursday, May 05, 2022

Reading Recovery is one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs for young children. A new study questions its long-term impact.

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Why Millions Of Kids Can't Read, And What Better Teaching Can Do About It

Wednesday, January 02, 2019

The instruction many students get is not based on the overwhelming scientific evidence about how kids turn spoken sounds into letters and words on a page.

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Out Of The Classroom And Into The Woods

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

In this Vermont kindergarten, every Monday is "Forest Monday" a day that gets students out of the classroom and into nature.

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Common Core Reading: The High Achievers

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The Common Core State Standards are changing reading instruction in many schools. And that means new challenges for lots of students, even traditional high achievers.

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Common Core Reading: 'The New Colossus'

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Common Core State Standards have led to big changes in the way many teachers approach reading instruction.

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Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool

Sunday, January 01, 2012

Lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique, and now that information is everywhere some say it's a waste of time. Now, physicists have the data to prove it. But efforts ...

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