APM Reports: Hard to Read - How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia

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September 14, 2017
Emily Hanford - Producer, Producer, and Reporter, Jule McCombes-Tolis - Interviewee, Tim Shanahan - Interviewee, Kelli Trinoskey - Interviewee, Pam Guest - Interviewee, Catherine Winter - Editor, Unknown - Interviewee and Speaker, Billy Gibson - Interviewee, Guinevere Eden - Interviewee, Brett Tingley - Interviewee, Fran Bowman - Interviewee, Ben Shifrin - Interviewee, Andrea Rowson - Interviewee, Cameron James - Interviewee and Reader, Megan Shay - Interviewee, Rebecca Rider - Interviewee, Emily Long - Interviewee, Stephen Smith - Narrator, Nancy James - Interviewee, Gayle Long - Interviewee, Christine Beattie - Interviewee, Joe Keith - Interviewee, Maggie Gibson - Interviewee, Kerry Agins - Interviewee, Michele Joubert - Speaker, Dayne Guest - Interviewee, Kevin Gorman - Interviewee, Amelia Smith - Interviewee
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An MPR News Presents broadcast of the APM Reports education documentary “Hard to Read - How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia.” There are proven ways to help people with dyslexia learn to read, and a federal law that's supposed to ensure schools provide kids with help. But across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.

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2017 EWA National Award for Education Reporting, finalist in Broadcast: Single-Topic News or Feature category

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