Emily Hanford
Investigative education reporter and host/reporter for the Sold a Story/APM Reports series focusing on reading instruction in U.S. schools, producing on-the-ground reporting about Steubenville's reading program and the science of reading policy debate.
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Feb 28, 2026 • 50min
Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right
Christopher Peek, journalist who covered curriculum reviews and EdReports, and Emily Hanford, investigative reporter on reading instruction, discuss Steubenville’s rare success teaching virtually all students to read. They explore preschool access, sounds-first phonics, district-wide reading practices, data-driven tutoring, attendance strategies, and how state policy and curriculum reviews threatened then later validated Steubenville’s approach.
