READS at Large: Planet Word Museum

It's the education story of the decade: students are struggling to read, and schools are struggling to identify the best way to teach literacy. But how did we get here—what are the reading wars all about?

In a presentation at the Planet Word, READS Lab's Principal Investigator James Kim walked through the history of reading research and its impact on public policy—including the big bets America's presidents have made on reading, from Head Start through the Every Student Succeeds Act.

In conversation with award-winning journalist Emily Hanford (host of Sold a Story), Kim explores what we’ve already mastered—teaching kids to decode—and the next frontier: ensuring all students can read for understanding. (Listen to Episode 2, featuring Kim, here: https://lnkd.in/gXHJTw6P)

Curious how our evidence-based work on the Model of Reading Engagement supports this goal? This conversation provides a context-rich primer on how MORE builds on the great literacy pushes of the 20th and 21st centuries to make progress on the previously elusive goal of helping students make sense of complex, content-rich texts.

Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eymEYWDc