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limatter. joining us bret, bret, so nice to see you. thank you for joining us. let's start with the facts, the evidence, what did the committee unveil that caught your attention? >> trey, thanks for having me on. as you know, my 83-year-old mother didi thinks you're the smartest man on tv so she's going to be thrilled that i'm appearing on your show on mother's day. so thanks for having me. i will tell you my very first impression was first a bit dismayed that not all the media was there, you know, you mentioned the partisanship, you didn't have several of the larger media stations c...

lighmatter. joining us bret, bret, so nice to see you. thank you for joining us. let's start with the facts, the evidence, what did the committee unveil that caught your attention? >> trey, thanks for having me on. as you know, my 83-year-old mother didi thinks you're the smartest man on tv so she's going to be thrilled that i'm appearing on your show on mother's day. so thanks for having me. i will tell you my very first impression was first a bit dismayed that not all the media was there, you know, you mentioned the partisanship, you didn't have several of the larger media stations...

Program that embarks on phonetics than picture words. why now, what's the best way to teach children to read? joining us la r the cofounders of enriched literacy, thank you so much for joining us again. brook, we will start with you, what do you make of this shift in new york schools and the way they are going to try to teach reading? >> i think it's long overdue, trey. you know, about 20 years ago new york city shift today balance-literacy approach to reading which doesn't teach phonics and as a result we have seen huge dropoff in reading proficiency levels and suddenly that's resonating with...

Program that embarks on phonetics than picture words. why now, what's the best way to teach children to read? joining us la r the cofounders of enriched literacy, thank you so much for joining us again. brook, we will start with you, what do you make of this shift in new york schools and the way they are going to try to teach reading? >> i think it's long overdue, trey. you know, about 20 years ago new york city shift today balance-literacy approach to reading which doesn't teach phonics and as a result we have seen huge dropoff in reading proficiency levels and suddenly that's resonating with...

Across our nation. 18 million fatherless kids in our nation? we should all be embarrassed by that. >> bill: when you talk about broward county, how much you think the places like baltimore's work? >> baltimore is a place where i have been able to visit and help out, but after the pandemic, it is getting worse. these kids, the graduation rates if they were truly putting these kids through normal testing procedures, you would see 0%. imagine if they had 38 schools where 0% in the schools had a reading proficiency levels at their grade levels this is an epidemic. this is a crisis. >> dana: i woul...