Why Can’t America’s Kids Read? | 4.7.24

Outrageous Medicaid fraud in Ohio, a 78-page Biden administration plan to push gender ideology into child welfare agencies, and an embed with ICE agents in Minneapolis at the height of the unrest. Three investigations, three Dao Prize nominations, and the reporters who broke them ...  Show more

Ben Shapiro joins Morning Wire to discuss his new film, “Confession," starring Rob Lowe, James Franco, and Nick Nolte. Shapiro explains why he set out to make a Christian film, how he assembled its acclaimed cast, why its themes of faith, courage, and resistance to communism are ...  Show more

Something alarming is happening with reading in America. Leisure reading by some accounts has declined by about 50 percent this century. Literacy scores are declining for fourth and eighth graders at alarming rates. And even college students today are complaining to teachers that ...  Show more

For decades, American schools have taught reading with an approach that doesn’t work very well. Emily Hanford of the podcast “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” explains how things are starting to change. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Mat ...  Show more

Lee Gaul watches his daughter’s lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth: She can't read. Little Zoe isn't the only one. Sixty-five percent of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. Kids need to learn specific skills to become good reade ...  Show more