Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
14: The Cuts
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Education research is at a turning point in the United States. The Trump administration is slashing ...
13: The List
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Steubenville became a model of reading success. Then a new law in Ohio put it all at risk. In this e...
12: The Evidence
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There’s a name for the program at the heart of Steubenville’s remarkable reading results. It’s...
11: The Outlier
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by ...
The podcast that's changing education
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nationally acclaimed journalist Emily Hanford's work is changing the ways schools around the country...
10: The Details
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Some of the teachers, students, parents and researchers we met in Sold a Story talk about the impact...
9: The Aftermath
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Schools around the country are changing the way they teach reading. And that is having major consequ...
Introducing: Sold a Story en español
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A Spanish adaptation of Sold a Story is now available. Hosted by journalist Valeria Fernández, the...
8: The Impact
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Across the country, school districts are dropping textbooks, state legislatures are going so far as ...
7: Your Words
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Voicemails, emails, tweets: We got a lot of messages from people after they heard Sold a Story. In t...
Brains On: How Do We Learn to Read — and Why is It Hard?
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we have an episode of a show called Brains On. It’s a science podcast for kids from our ...
What the Words Say
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There are kids like C.J. all over the country. Schools tell their parents they are reading at grad...
At a Loss for Words: What's Wrong with How Schools Teach Reading
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Molly Woodworth had a secret: She couldn’t read very well. She fought her way through text by look...
Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jack Silva had a problem. He was the chief academic officer of a school district in Pennsylvania, an...
Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The parents knew something wasn’t right. The school said everything would be fine. But their kids ...
6: The Reckoning
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lucy Calkins says she has learned from the science of reading. She's revised her materials. Fountas ...
5: The Company
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Teachers call books published by Heinemann their bibles. The company's products are in schools all o...
4: The Superstar
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Teachers sing songs about Lucy Calkins. The longtime professor at Columbia University’s Teachers C...
3: The Battle
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President George W. Bush made improving reading instruction a priority. He got Congress to provide m...
2: The Idea
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sixty years ago, Marie Clay developed a way to teach reading she said would help kids who were falli...
1: The Problem
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lee Gaul watches his daughter’s lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth: She ca...