{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Future Lab with Lee Schneider Season 3","title":"Kelly Gallagher","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2163,"description":"Veteran teacher and author Kelly Gallagher explains why kids have turned away from reading, and what parents and teachers can do to bring them back.\nKelly taught high school English for 35 years. He's the author of *Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading*. His work has earned him the National Council of Teachers of English's Kent Williamson Exemplary Leader Award (2024), the Adolescent Literacy Thought Leader Award (2018) and the California Association of Teachers of English Award for Classroom Excellence.\nIn this episode, Lee Schneider talks with Kelly about the forces pushing young people away from books. Some of those forces include: test-driven schooling, teaching techniques that make assigned reading a chore, social media that is built to be addictive, the temptation to take AI shortcuts instead of actually reading the book assigned.\nKelly shares that when he was in the classroom90% of his recent 12th graders admitted they had \"fake read\" their way through school, meaning that they hadn't read a novel in years and only had read excerpts.\nKelly Gallagher website: https://www.kellygallagher.org/\nTopics mentioned in this episode: \nNo Child Left Behind and the testing era — 0:15 (covers how testing narrowed reading and the imbalance)\nOver-teaching books — 1:48 (covers the Readicide concept, the 10-week worksheet, and the movie analogy)\nLong-form vs. short-form reading — 3:28 (covers biliterate readers and developmental windows)\nBenefits of fiction: empathy and wellbeing — 5:33\nSophie's Choice: why AI summaries can't replace reading — 6:57\nSelf-selected reading and the classroom library — 8:45 (covers book talks, graphic novels, and student choice)\n90% of seniors fake-read — 14:57\nAI reading is not reading — 16:17 (covers the Joan Didion example, windows and mirrors, and the boiling frog)\nReading in class: if they're not reading with you, they're not reading without you — 21:26 (covers reigniting reluctant readers)\nBook banning: then and now — 25:49 (covers...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JuNS9A2EWrQubn2cFgLK_ySqfhbCnBcmKW4a04RZakM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85OGQ4/NGQ4MDZiNGI5NGY4/MjYxNjQwZjA2ZDU4/ZWQxMy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}