Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.

We'd love to hear from you. Today is July 8th, 2025, and my guest is author and educational entrepreneur Doug Lamov. The chief knowledge officer of Teach Like a Champion, an organization that does professional development for teachers and writes curricula for them. This is Doug's third appearance on the program. He was last year in November of 2016 talking about reading.

We're going to talk about reading again today, specifically based on his new book co-authored with Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading. Doug, welcome back to Econ Talk. Good to see you, Russ. Thanks for having me. This is a handbook for teachers, but it also has deep list uh it also has deep lessons for anyone who reads, uh, for parents of children who are readers.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (64 minutes, 11,738 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.