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The Pedagouge

The Pedagouge

By: Jami Hunt-Williams
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The Pedagouge
Educational pain points that hurt us all.

Twenty-five years of research. The best of intentions. The most trusted names in the field. And still, somehow, millions of kids fall through the cracks — especially the ones who were never young enough to be anyone's priority.

The Pedagouge digs into the real, documented failures hiding inside American education — not vague frustration, but specific, sourced, follow-the-evidence investigation into why good systems keep producing bad outcomes. Hosted by Jami Hunt-Williams, a secondary English teacher with 19 years in the classroom who has spent that time doing both halves of the job most people do only one of — diagnosing exactly what's broken and building what actually works instead. Each episode traces one real problem back to its root, and asks the question most conversations about education are too polite to ask: not just "who let this happen," but "what would it actually take to fix it."

This isn't a show about blaming teachers. It's a show about naming what broke — and proving it can be rebuilt.

© 2026 The Pedagouge
Episodes
  • The Snake That Grades Its Own Tail

    The Snake That Grades Its Own Tail
    27 Sep 2026

    A state literacy specialist once told our host, point blank, that nobody at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education could verify what grade level a paragraph was written at. That same department is about to assign public A-through-F letter grades to every school in Missouri.

    This episode traces the actual mechanics behind those letter grades — how the test questions deciding them get written, who writes them, and how "rigorous" got redefined along the way. Governor Kehoe gets a fair hearing for his actual reasoning. The math doesn't get one.

    Full sourcing and links at youreadthatwrite.com.

    The Pedagouge is hosted by Jami Hunt-Williams — a secondary English teacher with 19 years in the classroom, and founder of You READ That WRITE Curriculum Architecture, where real classroom research meets what's coming next in reading recovery. More at youreadthatwrite.com.

    If this hit home, leave a review — it's the fastest way to help another teacher find the show.
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    10 min
  • Buy a Vowel

    Buy a Vowel
    21 Sep 2026

    Since 2000, the research has been clear: teach sounds with letters, and reading outcomes nearly double. Teach the same sounds without them, and they don't. So how did a program built the wrong way end up in 70% of U.S. school districts?

    Drawing on investigative reporting from Karen Vaites' Curriculum Insight Project, this episode traces how it happened — and asks what it means for the secondary students nobody was even watching.

    Full sourcing at youreadthatwrite.com.

    The Pedagouge is hosted by Jami Hunt-Williams — a secondary English teacher with 19 years in the classroom, and founder of You READ That WRITE Curriculum Architecture, where real classroom research meets what's coming next in reading recovery. More at youreadthatwrite.com.

    If this hit home, leave a review — it's the fastest way to help another teacher find the show.
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    7 min
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