Drowning out the Seagulls

The loudest voices are not necessarily the correct voices. My master coaches call them the "seagulls" because they drown out everyone else with their raucous.

I spent the first four or so hours of my 10-hour drive from eastern Idaho back home to the Columbia River Gorge listening to a podcast called Sold a Story.

The podcast investigates why so many schoolchildren around the world, but particularly in the US, are poor readers.

The reason, according to the creator, education journalist Emily Hanford, is because…