The Shawn Ryan Show
Shawn Ryan
Society & Culture
Sold a Story
by APM Reports
Today: #35 in Society & Culture on our combined chart.
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| Date | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 2 | #12 |
About the show
Sold a Story is an investigative podcast about how kids learn — what works in the classroom, the science behind those insights and why that research often doesn’t make it into schools. Season 1 revealed why so many kids are behind in reading, and it sparked a wave of change across the country. In Season 2, we go beyond reading to look at teaching itself.
Latest episodes
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Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching
October 1, 2026 · 3 minSold a Story is back with a new season that goes beyond reading. Emily Hanford explores an approach to teaching that's been largely rejected by the education system — despite decades of evidence that it works. Video: Watch the trailer on…
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11: The Outlier
February 20, 2025 · 31 minThere’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. Many of the wealthiest places in the country can’t even say that. And Steubenville is a Rust Belt town…
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10: The Details
April 11, 2024 · 31 minSome 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 in schools — and share some of their hopes and concerns about the “science of reading” movement…
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9: The Aftermath
April 4, 2024 · 28 minSchools around the country are changing the way they teach reading. And that is having major consequences for people who sold the flawed idea we investigated in Sold a Story. But Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell are fighting…
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8: The Impact
May 18, 2023 · 25 minAcross the country, school districts are dropping textbooks, state legislatures are going so far as to ban teaching methods, and everyone, it seems, is talking about "the science of reading." Things have been changing since Sold a Story…
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7: Your Words
May 11, 2023 · 25 minVoicemails, emails, tweets: We got a lot of messages from people after they heard Sold a Story. In this episode, we bring you some of their voices. A 10-year-old figures out why he has struggled to read. A mom stays up late to binge the…
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6: The Reckoning
November 17, 2022 · 42 minLucy Calkins says she has learned from the science of reading. She's revised her materials. Fountas and Pinnell have not revised theirs. Their publisher, Heinemann, is still selling some products to teach reading that contain debunked…
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5: The Company
November 10, 2022 · 47 minTeachers call books published by Heinemann their bibles. The company's products are in schools all over the country. Some of the products used to teach reading are rooted in a debunked idea about how children learn to read. But they've…