Millions of kids can't read well. Scientists have known for decades how children learn to read but many schools are ignoring the research. They buy teacher training and books that are rooted in a disproven idea. Emily Hanford investigates four authors and a publishing company that have made millions selling this idea.
17 episodes transcribedSome of the teachers, students, parents and researchers we met in Sold a Story talk about the impact the podcast has had on their lives and i...
Schools around the country are changing the way they teach reading. And that is having major consequences for people who sold the flawed theo...
A Spanish adaptation of Sold a Story is now available. Hosted by journalist Valeria Fernández, the podcast is condensed into one 58-minute ep...
Across the country, school districts are dropping textbooks, state legislatures are going so far as to ban teaching methods, and everyone, it...
Messages poured in: voicemails, emails, tweets. We got a lot of messages from people after they heard Sold a Story. In this bonus episode, we...
This week we have an episode of a show called Brains On. It’s a science podcast for kids from our colleagues at APM. In this episode, Emily j...
There are kids like C.J. all over the country. Schools tell their parents they are reading at grade level, but the kids are not. And whether...
Molly Woodworth had a secret: She couldn’t read very well. She fought her way through text by looking at the first letter of a word and think...
Jack Silva had a problem. He was the chief academic officer of a school district in Pennsylvania, and more than 40% of the kids in his distri...
The parents knew something wasn’t right. The school said everything would be fine. But their kids weren’t learning how to read. In this docum...
Lucy Calkins says she has learned from the science of reading. She's revised her materials. Fountas and Pinnell have not revised theirs....
Teachers call books published by Heinemann their "bibles." The company's products are in schools all over the country. Some of...
Teachers sing songs about Teachers College Columbia professor Lucy Calkins. She’s one of the most influential people in American elementary e...
President George W. Bush made improving reading instruction a priority. He got Congress to provide money to schools that used reading program...
Sixty years ago, Marie Clay developed a way to teach reading she said would help kids who were falling behind. They’d catch up and never need...
Corinne Adams watches her son's lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth: He can't read. Little Charlie isn't t...
Sold a Story is a six-part series beginning with two episodes on October 20.More: soldastory.org
