Sold a Story

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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 struggling to learn how to read, and it sparked a wave of change across the country. In Season 2, we go beyond reading to look at teaching itself.

  1. Folge 1

    S2 E1: It’s Not Just Reading

    In 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 him seriously, until a professor gives him a chance to see if his ideas will work in a classroom. Read: What is Direct Instruction?Video: The 5 key concepts of DIVideo: Who was Zig Engelmann? Read: Transcript of this episode Support: Donate to APM Reports Email us: soldastory@apmreports.orgCall us: (612) 888-7323More: soldastory.org Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a weekly email newsletter from host Emily Hanford.

    S2 E1: It’s Not Just Reading

  2. Folge 2

    S2 E2: The Remedy Is Always Teaching

    At an experimental preschool in Illinois, Zig Engelmann and his colleagues begin turning his ideas into a classroom teaching method. Along the way, they make a series of discoveries about effective instruction. Their mantra: “If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.” Read: What is Direct Instruction?Video: The 5 key concepts of DIVideo: Who was Zig Engelmann? Read: Transcript of this episode Support: Donate to APM Reports Email us: soldastory@apmreports.orgCall us: (612) 888-7323More: soldastory.org Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a weekly email newsletter from host Emily Hanford.

    S2 E2: The Remedy Is Always Teaching

  3. Folge 3

    S2 E3: The Forgotten Experiment

    Zig Engelmann gets the chance of a lifetime: Put Direct Instruction to the test in one of the largest education experiments ever conducted. The results could have changed the direction of American education. Instead, they’re contested — and ultimately cast aside. Read: Why America’s massive educational experiment didn’t transform schoolsRead: The forgotten voices of Project Follow ThroughVideo: The biggest education experiment you’ve never heard of Read: Transcript of this episode Support: Donate to APM Reports Email us: soldastory@apmreports.orgCall us: (612) 888-7323More: soldastory.org Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a weekly email newsletter from host Emily Hanford.

    S2 E3: The Forgotten Experiment

  4. Folge 4

    S2 E4: What Can You Do for My Black Children?

    In a poor, Black neighborhood in Houston, Principal Thaddeus Lott transforms a struggling elementary school with Direct Instruction. Soon, his students are outperforming students at much wealthier schools. The results are so remarkable, some people think it’s too good to be true. Video: The secret to Wesley Elementary’s successRead: Teachers who use Direct Instruction tend to like it Read: Transcript of this episode Support: Donate to APM ReportsEmail us: soldastory@apmreports.orgCall us: (612) 888-7323More: soldastory.org Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a weekly email newsletter from host Emily Hanford.

    S2 E4: What Can You Do for My Black Children?

  5. Folge 5

    S2 E5: Why It Works

    Direct Instruction has decades of research behind it, but what makes it work? We dig into Zig Engelmann’s theory of instruction, what cognitive science reveals about how children learn and what hundreds of studies show about the program’s effectiveness. Read: The evidence for Direct InstructionRead: Transcript of this episode Support: Donate to APM ReportsEmail us: soldastory@apmreports.orgCall us: (612) 888-7323More: soldastory.org Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a weekly email newsletter from host Emily Hanford.

    S2 E5: Why It Works

  6. Staffel 2 – Trailer

    Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching

    Sold 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 YouTubeMore: soldastory.org Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a multi-part Extra Credit email series from Emily Hanford.

    Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching
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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 struggling to learn how to read, and it sparked a wave of change across the country. In Season 2, we go beyond reading to look at teaching itself.

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