# America’s Reading Crisis: What Mississippi Got Right

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Podcast: [The Argument](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944)
Published: 2025-12-15T11:00:00+00:00
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America's literacy problem is a policy choice. As schools shifted away from phonics toward guessing-based instruction, a generation of kids paid the price. But a quiet reversal is underway in an unexpected place. Mississippi rebuilt reading instruction from the ground up and saw real gains. If it worked there, why are other states so resistant to copying it? The Argument is a podcast dedicated to honest, unflinching debate about the biggest questions facing democracy, culture, and our future....

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