Grover Whitehurst

And the fifth strategy brings everything back to meaning because decoding is only ever half of the product.

What about the research? In 1988, Grover Whitehurst and his colleagues ran a study with parents of toddlers.

One group read picture books as usual.

The other group was trained to change how they read, asking open questions, expanding on what the child said, praising the child's contributions, turning the child into the storyteller.

And yet it's been many years now.

I remember Russ Whitehurst, who's, you know, no slouch from a research perspective or high expectations perspective saying, look, the evidence is not great.

And therefore, let's we should really focus on child care, right, that there are benefits to labor market to parents being able to work and bring in income to having child care.

But we shouldn't worry so much if that child care is all that educational or not, as long as, you know, the kids are being well, well taken care of.