Emily Hanford

Sold a Story (does) such a beautiful job explaining what is so messed up with how we teach reading in this country and how it got that way. You can't listen to that show without just feeling infuriated by the end!

A riveting podcast.

A distressing and enraging piece of reporting…unfolds like a true-crime narrative.

Emily has the distinction of being a person who has really changed the national debate on a matter of importance to everyone.

Emily Hanford has probably done more than any educator, official, or researcher to drive the contemporary reading revolution in America’s classrooms.

Hanford’s reporting helped launch a movement.

If American education is having yet another Great Awakening on reading instruction, much of the credit is due to Emily Hanford.

I’m inspired by the Hanford Effect.

The most significant body of work produced by an education journalist in the last few decades.