Sold a Story

Early in her teaching career, Margaret Goldberg was skeptical of the science of reading. T... more

Education research is at a turning point in the United States. The Trump administration is... more

Steubenville became a model of reading success. Then a new law in Ohio put it all at risk.... more

There’s a name for the program at the heart of Steubenville’s remarkable reading results. ... more

There’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good rea... more

Nationally acclaimed journalist Emily Hanford's work is changing the ways schools around t... more

Some of the teachers, students, parents and researchers we met in Sold a Story talk about ... more

Schools around the country are changing the way they teach reading. And that is having maj... more

A Spanish adaptation of Sold a Story is now available. Hosted by journalist Valeria Fernán... more

Across the country, school districts are dropping textbooks, state legislatures are going ... more

Voicemails, emails, tweets: We got a lot of messages from people after they heard Sold a S... more

This week we have an episode of a show called Brains On. It’s a science podcast for kids f... more

There are kids like C.J. all over the country. Schools tell their parents they are reading... more

Molly Woodworth had a secret: She couldn’t read very well. She fought her way through text... more

Jack Silva had a problem. He was the chief academic officer of a school district in Pennsy... more

The parents knew something wasn’t right. The school said everything would be fine. But the... more

Lucy Calkins says she has learned from the science of reading. She's revised her materials... more

Teachers call books published by Heinemann their bibles. The company's products are in sch... more

Teachers sing songs about Lucy Calkins. The longtime professor at Columbia University’s Te... more

President George W. Bush made improving reading instruction a priority. He got Congress to... more

Sixty years ago, Marie Clay developed a way to teach reading she said would help kids who ... more

Lee Gaul watches his daughter’s lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth... more