In this episode we are chatting with Robert Pondiscio. Robert is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on K–12 education, curriculum, teaching, school choice, and charter schooling. We discuss the importance of reading comprehension in the Science of Reading, which is being overlooked by some. Here is the link to Roberts's article.https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/wanted-science-reading-comprehension-movementHere is the link to Dan Willingham's video Robert talks about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiP-ijdxqEcLink to Baseball Experiment: https://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/baseball-experiment-two-wisconsin-researchers-discovered-comprehension-gap-knowledge-gap/

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