The Science of Reading and the Media: How Do Current Reporting Patterns Cause Damage? Maren Aukerman, University of Calgary In the field of reading education, we are in the midst of what can fairly be characterized as a media crisis. In my first previous Critical Conversations contribution, I documented how reporting on the “science […]
The Science of Reading and the Media: Does the Media Draw on High-Quality Reading Research? Maren Aukerman, University of Calgary Recent stories about the “science of reading” in the popular press have often distorted how children learn reading. Reporting can be biased, as my last Critical Conversations piece discussed. But there is another problem, […]
The Science of Reading and the Media: Is Reporting Biased? Maren Aukerman, The University of Calgary At least two questions are critical for assessing journalistic quality. First, does the writing exhibit bias that distorts the truth? And, second, does the writer understand the topic deeply enough to report on it accurately? In the field […]
