Deep Reading
Ezra Klein × Maryanne Wolf
Dr. Wolf joined Ezra Klein for a wide-ranging conversation on what happens to close reading, sustained attention, and cross-linguistic transfer in a screen-first world — and what it means for how we teach children to read today.
The conversation covers the ‘bi-literate brain’ — the idea that we can cultivate both a fast, skimming mode of reading and a slow, deep mode, without one crowding out the other, if we’re intentional about it from the earliest years of instruction.
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