Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading

Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast · May 11, 2026 · 30m

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:01 - Table of Contents

* 01:39 - Mississippi Can Read Now

* 02:57 - What Mississippi and Louisiana Did

* 09:54 - Spies In Every Classroom

* 11:37 - Mississippi Results Are Not Due To Retention

* 17:03 - Is Retention Helpful In General?

* 21:25 - At Eighth Grade A Lot Of This Improvement Remains

* 22:22 - England Reforms Its Schools

* 23:26 - Mastery Learning

* 25:57 - The War Against Reading

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