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Sold a Story
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Today: #17 in Society & Culture on our combined chart.
Today: #97 in Society & Culture, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #12 in Society & Culture, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #49 in Society & Culture, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #112 in Society & Culture, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #90 in Society & Culture, Mexico on our combined chart.
Today: #42 in Society & Culture, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #45 in Society & Culture, Ireland on our combined chart.
Today: #39 in Society & Culture, India on our combined chart.
Today: #163 in Society & Culture, Philippines on our combined chart.
Today: #125 in Society & Culture, South Africa on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · Australia
Latest daily rankings: Oct 22. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the Society & Culture, Australia combined chart over the last 7 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
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| Oct 22 | #49 | #29 | #27 | #26 |
| Oct 21 | #47 | #28 | #28 | #30 |
| Oct 20 | #48 | #28 | #28 | #28 |
| Oct 19 | #46 | #26 | #26 | #24 |
| Oct 18 | #49 | #30 | #30 | #30 |
| Oct 17 | #39 | #19 | #19 | #32 |
| Oct 16 | #67 | #50 | #48 | #91 |
Latest episodes
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S2 E3: The Forgotten Experiment
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S2 E2: The Remedy Is Always Teaching
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S2 E1: It’s Not Just Reading
October 15, 2026 · 21 minIn the 1960s, an education outsider named Zig Engelmann begins challenging conventional ideas about what young children can learn. He teaches his 4-year-old twins basic algebra. But he has a hard time getting anyone in education to take…
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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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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…
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4: The Superstar
November 3, 2022 · 34 minTeachers sing songs about Lucy Calkins. The longtime professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College is one of the most influential people in American elementary education today. Her admirers call her books bibles. Why didn't she know…
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3: The Battle
October 27, 2022 · 41 minPresident George W. Bush made improving reading instruction a priority. He got Congress to provide money to schools that used reading programs supported by scientific research. But backers of Marie Clay’s ideas saw Bush’s Reading First…
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2: The Idea
October 20, 2022 · 51 minSixty 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 help again. Today, her program remains popular, and her theory about how people read is at the…
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1: The Problem
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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.