Emily Hanford - APM Reports

“Emily Hanford has been working in public media for more than two decades as a reporter, producer, editor, news director and program host. Her work has won numerous honors including a duPont-Columbia University Award and a Casey Medal. In 2017, she won the Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association. Her groundbreaking podcast episode Hard Words, on why children aren’t being taught to read, was a winner of the inaugural Public Service award from EWA in 2019. Emily is a member of the EWA Journalist Advisory Board and a longtime mentor for EWA’s “new to the beat” program. She is a frequent speaker and moderator. Emily is based in the Washington, D.C. area. She is a graduate of Amherst College.” https://www.apmreports.org/profile/emily-hanford

• What the Words Say: https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2020/08/06/what-the-words-say

• At a Loss for Words - How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers - https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

• Hard Words - Why aren't kids being taught to read? https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read

• Sold a Story - How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong Podcast https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

• Emily Hanford’s science of reading book list - https://www.apmreports.org/story/2022/10/20/science-of-reading-list

What Teachers Should Know About the Science of Reading (Video and Transcript)