As we went over in the last discussion, "Sold a Story" can be a grueling podcast because of the ratio of information to cliff hangers. The short version, and m

As we went over in the last discussion, "Sold a Story" can be a grueling podcast because of the ratio of information to cliff hangers. The short version, and maybe the entirety of the information in the 15+ hours of podcast is: Phonics works. While some kids can learn to read English without phonics, many kids can't, and there are periodic trends to teach reading without phonics, which causes a lot of problems when a school district follows one of those trends.