Many teachers have never learned how to teach reading using the method that science has determined to be effective, as an important new radio documentary explains. Others simply reject the evidence.

We love to use educational words. Yes, most of the words can be used in our daily lives outside of our classrooms or schools, but we like to hijack them and use them for our very own educational use.

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...