{"id":95263,"date":"2019-08-25T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/how-a-flawed-idea-is-teaching-millions-of-kids-to-be-poor-readers"},"modified":"2019-08-25T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T14:42:22","slug":"how-a-flawed-idea-is-teaching-millions-of-kids-to-be-poor-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/how-a-flawed-idea-is-teaching-millions-of-kids-to-be-poor-readers","title":{"rendered":"How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/27E6kkNJY_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dateline: Listen to this audio documentary on the Educate podcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasu.org\/post\/how-flawed-idea-teaching-millions-kids-be-poor-readers#subscribe\"><strong>Subscribe now<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molly Woodworth was a kid who seemed to do well at everything: good grades, in the gifted and talented program. But she couldn\u2019t read very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no rhyme or reason to reading for me,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen a teacher would dictate a word and say, \u2018Tell me how you think you can spell it,\u2019 I sat there with my mouth open while other kids gave spellings, and I thought, \u2018How do they even know where to begin?\u2019 I was totally lost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dateline: Listen to this audio documentary on the Educate podcast. Subscribe now. Molly Woodworth was a kid who seemed to do well at everything: good grades, in the gifted and talented program. But she couldn\u2019t read very well. \u201cThere was no rhyme or reason to reading for me,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen a teacher would dictate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}