Reporter Emily Hanford has released another provocative podcast series about the reading education problem in the United States that reaches all the way to La Cañada — Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went so Wrong: The six-part series is a follow-up to Hanford’s award-winning podcast from 2018,
Great information, I look forward to learning more from this podcast. Thanks, Sugi. It’s not just the teaching methods that changed, but the books themselves. Joining the homeschooling community this past summer, I learned about “living books” and the fact that after LBJ signed the higher education act, schools and libraries started being federally funded. The kinds of books being provided were no longer narrative, capturing hearts of children, because through stories is the best way we learn. It’s almost like they’ve wanted reading, the most crucial tool for learning, to be out of reach and undermined. We go to a living books library for our curriculum now where they find and preserve enriching books that have been discarded. I hope more parents can find more libraries like this and instill the love for, and importance of reading living books.
What living books libraries are there in Los Angeles? I know about living books through the Charlotte Mason homeschooling philosophy but have never heard about a living book library!
We go to the Children’s Preservation Library in Traverse City, MI. I have not heard of any in Cali, but I’m sure they’re out there. Might be word of mouth (homeschooling/unschooling communities). I know there are more in Florida, other states too that I can’t think of right now. Happy hunting!
Great information, I look forward to learning more from this podcast. Thanks, Sugi. It’s not just the teaching methods that changed, but the books themselves. Joining the homeschooling community this past summer, I learned about “living books” and the fact that after LBJ signed the higher education act, schools and libraries started being federally funded. The kinds of books being provided were no longer narrative, capturing hearts of children, because through stories is the best way we learn. It’s almost like they’ve wanted reading, the most crucial tool for learning, to be out of reach and undermined. We go to a living books library for our curriculum now where they find and preserve enriching books that have been discarded. I hope more parents can find more libraries like this and instill the love for, and importance of reading living books.
What living books libraries are there in Los Angeles? I know about living books through the Charlotte Mason homeschooling philosophy but have never heard about a living book library!
We go to the Children’s Preservation Library in Traverse City, MI. I have not heard of any in Cali, but I’m sure they’re out there. Might be word of mouth (homeschooling/unschooling communities). I know there are more in Florida, other states too that I can’t think of right now. Happy hunting!