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“Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?” This is the title of American Public Media journalist Emily Hanford’s dangerously misguided opinion piece published in the New York Times on October 26, 2018. My respect for both the New York Times and American Public Media has been shaken by the irresponsible nature of this divisive and ill-informed diatribe. Teachers aren’t getting it wrong; Hanford got it wrong. Hanford asserts that explicit, systematic phonics instruction