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Life Kit

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Today: #5 in Education on our combined chart.

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Position on the Education combined chart over the last 7 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.

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Oct 21#5#16#7#16#16
Oct 20#5#15#7#17#15
Oct 19#5#15#8#18#17
Oct 18#6#19#9#18#18
Oct 17#7#20#10#16#19
Oct 16#6#16#11#17#17
Oct 15#8#18#12#16#16

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About the show

Everyone needs a little help being a human. From sleep to saving money to parenting and more, host Marielle Segarra talks to experts to get the best advice out there. Life Kit is here to help you get it together. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including sponsor-free listening and helpful curated playlists by topic for Life Kit.