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Editor’s note: Reporter Alex Baumhardt worked almost exclusively on this series for more than four months, starting in January. The project involved extensive research and interviews with more than 80 people, including state and local leaders, teachers, parents and students. She collected data and historical documents through records requests with state agencies and school districts, […]
Since its inception, Head Start has enrolled over 21 millionchildren at a cost of over $66 billion, but there is littleevidence of long-term impact, and poor children enter kindergartena step behind their middle-class peers and never catch up. Congressshould focus on improving Head Start programs by enacting higherstandards, requiring stronger accountability, and spurringinnovation.
Experts warn that most American children learn with ineffective reading curriculums.
I hate to admit this, but I learned almost as much about reading instruction from four hours of listening to “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” as I have from 20 years of covering education. The podcast by American Public Media reporters Emily Hanford and Christopher Peak lays out decades of context for what’s been dubbed the reading wars.