21 Episodes

  1. 13: The List

    Published: 3/6/2025

  2. 12: The Evidence

    Published: 2/27/2025

  3. 11: The Outlier

    Published: 2/20/2025

  4. The podcast that's changing education

    Published: 11/1/2024

  5. 10: The Details

    Published: 4/11/2024

  6. 9: The Aftermath

    Published: 4/4/2024

  7. Introducing: Sold a Story en español

    Published: 3/19/2024

  8. 8: The Impact

    Published: 5/18/2023

  9. 7: Your Words

    Published: 5/11/2023

  10. Brains On: How Do We Learn to Read — and Why is It Hard?

    Published: 4/11/2023

  11. What the Words Say

    Published: 4/6/2023

  12. At a Loss for Words: What's Wrong with How Schools Teach Reading

    Published: 3/30/2023

  13. Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?

    Published: 3/23/2023

  14. Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia

    Published: 3/16/2023

  15. 6: The Reckoning

    Published: 11/17/2022

  16. 5: The Company

    Published: 11/10/2022

  17. 4: The Superstar

    Published: 11/3/2022

  18. 3: The Battle

    Published: 10/27/2022

  19. 2: The Idea

    Published: 10/20/2022

  20. 1: The Problem

    Published: 10/20/2022

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Millions of kids can't read well. Scientists have known for decades how children learn to read, but many schools don’t know about the research. They buy teacher training and books that are rooted in a disproven idea. In Sold a Story, Emily Hanford investigates four authors and a publishing company that have made millions selling this idea.