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In Season 1, the Sold a Story podcast dispelled one of the big myths about learning to read: that schools didn't need to teach kids how to sound out letters.
Host Emily Hanford says new myths are popping up to take its place. Catch up at soldastory.org.
Host Emily Hanford says new myths are popping up to take its place. Catch up at soldastory.org.
December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In Season 1, the Sold a Story podcast dispelled one of the big myths about learning to read: that schools didn't need to teach kids how to sound out letters.
Host Emily Hanford says new myths are popping up to take its place. Catch up at soldastory.org.
Host Emily Hanford says new myths are popping up to take its place. Catch up at soldastory.org.
Early in her teaching career, Margaret Goldberg was skeptical of the science of reading. Today, she is working with neuroscientist Reid Lyon to bring it into more classrooms. Lyon and Goldberg joined host Emily Hanford for a live conversation.
New in the Sold a Story podcast feed today.
New in the Sold a Story podcast feed today.
Emily Hanford LIVE from Planet Word with Reid Lyon and Margaret Goldberg
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December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Early in her teaching career, Margaret Goldberg was skeptical of the science of reading. Today, she is working with neuroscientist Reid Lyon to bring it into more classrooms. Lyon and Goldberg joined host Emily Hanford for a live conversation.
New in the Sold a Story podcast feed today.
New in the Sold a Story podcast feed today.
Politically prominent Nevada GOP activist and donor Robert Beadles has taken credit for hiring a private investigator who tracked Reno's mayor 3 years ago, ending a yearslong legal saga to unmask him as the client despite his attempts to remain anonymous.
By @tabithamueller.bsky.social:
By @tabithamueller.bsky.social:
Robert Beadles confirms he hired private investigator who tracked Reno mayor
The GOP activist, who has touted election fraud conspiracies, came forward after trying for years to remain anonymous. The U.S. Supreme Court declined his case.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Politically prominent Nevada GOP activist and donor Robert Beadles has taken credit for hiring a private investigator who tracked Reno's mayor 3 years ago, ending a yearslong legal saga to unmask him as the client despite his attempts to remain anonymous.
By @tabithamueller.bsky.social:
By @tabithamueller.bsky.social:
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October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Teachers, parents and community members: We've added new discussion guides to help you talk about the podcast Sold a Story: soldastory.org/discuss
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Teachers, parents and community members: We've added new discussion guides to help you talk about the podcast Sold a Story: soldastory.org/discuss
By our @carmela.bsky.social. More at soldastory.org.
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
By our @carmela.bsky.social. More at soldastory.org.
In the past three years, 26 states have enacted laws to better align reading instruction with scientific research.
We updated our map to include Missouri.
More: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
We updated our map to include Missouri.
More: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
August 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In the past three years, 26 states have enacted laws to better align reading instruction with scientific research.
We updated our map to include Missouri.
More: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
We updated our map to include Missouri.
More: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so researchers could draw connections between them.
August 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so researchers could draw connections between them.
The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administration agreed to finish the research only after it was sued.
Lawsuit saves massive reading experiment
The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administ...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administration agreed to finish the research only after it was sued.
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals that federally mandated testing is not designed to catch.
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals that federally mandated testing is not designed to catch.
NAEP is one of the few education initiatives Trump has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed staff responsible for keeping tests up to date. And the board overseeing the assessment has eliminated more than a dozen tests, citing “cost efficiencies.”
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‘At what point does it break?’ Nation’s Report Card at risk, researchers say
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is one of the few federal education initiatives that the Trump Administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff respon...
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August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
NAEP is one of the few education initiatives Trump has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed staff responsible for keeping tests up to date. And the board overseeing the assessment has eliminated more than a dozen tests, citing “cost efficiencies.”
www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
New episode of Sold a Story.
𝟭𝟰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀
The Trump administration is slashing government funding for science and dismantling the Dept of Ed. We look at what the cuts mean for the science of reading — and the effort to get that science into schools.
Listen: www.apmreports.org/episode/2025...
𝟭𝟰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀
The Trump administration is slashing government funding for science and dismantling the Dept of Ed. We look at what the cuts mean for the science of reading — and the effort to get that science into schools.
Listen: www.apmreports.org/episode/2025...
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New episode of Sold a Story.
𝟭𝟰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀
The Trump administration is slashing government funding for science and dismantling the Dept of Ed. We look at what the cuts mean for the science of reading — and the effort to get that science into schools.
Listen: www.apmreports.org/episode/2025...
𝟭𝟰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀
The Trump administration is slashing government funding for science and dismantling the Dept of Ed. We look at what the cuts mean for the science of reading — and the effort to get that science into schools.
Listen: www.apmreports.org/episode/2025...
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have accelerated overdoses for Black men ages 55 to 74, who have suffered disproportionately for decades.
Read: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Read: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Overdose deaths disproportionately impact older Black men. Few programs in Minnesota exist to support them
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have accelerated overdoses for Black men ages 55 to 74, who have suffered disproportionately for decades. One Ramsey County nonprofit is working to fill the gap.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have accelerated overdoses for Black men ages 55 to 74, who have suffered disproportionately for decades.
Read: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Read: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Four Minneapolis police trainers were accused of using excessive force in civil lawsuits the city settled before they received their current assignments, according to a review of federal court documents.
Story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Four Minneapolis officers were accused of excessive force — and now train other police
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke and until recently led MPD’s use-of-force training is not the only trainer whose record has raised concerns over the department’s commitment ...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Four Minneapolis police trainers were accused of using excessive force in civil lawsuits the city settled before they received their current assignments, according to a review of federal court documents.
Story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Every two weeks for the past three years, a police officer has boarded a plane near his home in Sydney, Australia, to commute to work – in Bethel, Alaska.
A story with @sgsmly.bsky.social at KYUK.
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A story with @sgsmly.bsky.social at KYUK.
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Bethel Police say 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off schedules work. Some community members disagree
In the past decade, Bethel has increasingly relied on a policing system where officers work for two weeks, then take two weeks off. This lets some officers commute from thousands of miles away. And wh...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every two weeks for the past three years, a police officer has boarded a plane near his home in Sydney, Australia, to commute to work – in Bethel, Alaska.
A story with @sgsmly.bsky.social at KYUK.
www.kyuk.org/public-safet...
A story with @sgsmly.bsky.social at KYUK.
www.kyuk.org/public-safet...
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness — conditions few of the facilities are equipped to handle.
By @egawthrop.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
By @egawthrop.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
‘We did not want to take this guy’: Abuse rates higher at nursing homes with more mental illness
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — condi...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness — conditions few of the facilities are equipped to handle.
By @egawthrop.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
By @egawthrop.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
The school reform program Success for All, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows it gets great results, especially when it comes to elementary reading skills.
Read why: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Read why: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Success for All gets kids reading. Why don’t more schools use it?
The school reform program, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows it gets great results, especially when it ...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The school reform program Success for All, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows it gets great results, especially when it comes to elementary reading skills.
Read why: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Read why: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Here's @katereports.bsky.social on the impact of her reporting on Illinois hospitals.
Full story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Full story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
July 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Here's @katereports.bsky.social on the impact of her reporting on Illinois hospitals.
Full story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Full story: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Some people say antidepressants left them with debilitating symptoms for years — even decades — after going off the medications. Their ranks are growing online as they push for recognition and research. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
After quitting antidepressants, some people suffer surprising, lingering symptoms
Some people say antidepressants left them with debilitating symptoms for years — even decades — after going off the medications. Their ranks are growing online as they push for recognition and researc...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Some people say antidepressants left them with debilitating symptoms for years — even decades — after going off the medications. Their ranks are growing online as they push for recognition and research. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.
Listen at @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...
Listen at @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...
People say they've faced withdrawals from SSRIs. They want recognition and research
A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.
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June 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.
Listen at @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...
Listen at @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...
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After spending most of his life behind bars, Leonard Peltier now lives in a home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. He says he has no regrets but still harbors resentment over his imprisonment.
Leonard Peltier talks freedom, future after nearly 50 years in prison
After spending most of his life behind bars, Leonard Peltier now lives in a home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. He says he has no regrets but still harbors resent...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
After spending most of his life behind bars, Leonard Peltier now lives in a home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. He says he has no regrets but still harbors resentment over his imprisonment.
Lawmakers have strengthened Illinois’ longstanding sexual abuse survivors law in an effort to ensure patients receive critical care after sexual assault.
Reporting by @katereports.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Reporting by @katereports.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Illinois lawmakers strengthen law requiring hospital care for sexual assault survivors
The bill’s passage comes a year after APM Reports revealed that dozens of hospitals violated the 49-year-old law.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Lawmakers have strengthened Illinois’ longstanding sexual abuse survivors law in an effort to ensure patients receive critical care after sexual assault.
Reporting by @katereports.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Reporting by @katereports.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Emily: "One of the words I really like is orangutan."
Kid: 😒
Kid: 😒
May 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Emily: "One of the words I really like is orangutan."
Kid: 😒
Kid: 😒