And speaking of reading…

…Journalist Emily Hanford has been doing important work examining developments in brain science that help clarify the most effective strategies for teaching young children to read. These stories are long, but represent the kind of revelatory journalism that can permanently shift a reader’s perspective:

• Why aren’t kids being taught to read?
• How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
• New salvos in the battles over reading instruction
• Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids