This podcast, Bought a Story, was produced by APM Reviews and reprinted with permission.
There’s an concept about how kids be taught to learn that’s held sway in faculties for greater than a era – despite the fact that it was confirmed incorrect by cognitive scientists many years in the past. Instructing strategies based mostly on this concept could make it tougher for kids to learn to learn. On this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this concept and the corporate that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators got here to imagine in one thing that isn’t true and are actually reckoning with the implications – kids harmed, cash wasted, an schooling system upended.
Episode 9: The Aftermath
Colleges across the nation are altering the best way they train studying. And that’s having main penalties for individuals who offered the flawed concept we investigated in Bought a Story. However Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Homosexual Su Pinnell are preventing again — and preventing to remain related. And so are organizations that promoted their work: The Studying Restoration Council of North America and the writer, Heinemann.
This podcast, Bought a Story, was produced by APM Reviews and reprinted with permission.
