How educating children to learn went so unsuitable 

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There’s an thought about how kids be taught to learn that’s held sway in faculties for greater than a technology – despite the fact that it was confirmed unsuitable by cognitive scientists a long time in the past. Instructing strategies based mostly on this concept could make it more durable for kids to learn to learn. On this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this concept and the corporate that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators got here to consider in one thing that isn’t true and are actually reckoning with the results – kids harmed, cash wasted, an schooling system upended.

Episode 1: The Drawback

Corinne Adams watches her son’s classes throughout Zoom faculty and discovers a dismaying fact: He can’t learn. Little Charlie isn’t the one one. Sixty-five p.c of fourth graders usually are not proficient readers. Youngsters must be taught particular expertise to grow to be good readers, and in many faculties, these expertise usually are not being taught.