how schools teach reading by emily hanford, with american public media. i understand as school board members your roll is really oversight and that you may sometimes choose to let the educators make the education decisions. there is a disconnect however between the science of reading and the accepted practice of reading instruction that has gone on too long and this really deserves your full attention. you've probably heard of whole language and know that it has been debunked. before emily hanford's podcast you may not have known that literacy, they approached used in many of our elementary schools is built upon whole languages, a flawed theory of how the brain learns to read. many of today's school leaders were trained in the era of whole language which has shaped the release of our reading. it is up to you, as members of the board, to be disruptors and ask hard questions about the district approach to instruction at all lever -- levels of the framework. we currently have a wait to fail model. because of our flawed approach to teaching reading, strugglin