Is Direct Instruction evil? Is it what I do for a living?

Let’s try out Substack Live this Sunday afternoon!

A spicy confession: I loved, loved, loved the first season of the Sold a Story podcast. It took the phonics/whole language fight — the closest thing the education world has to WWI-style trench warfare — and won it.¹ It brought the science of reading to a huge audience, and helped change the way reading is taught in schools.

Now Sold is Story is back for a…