Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective'
Dec 4, 2024 · Twenty-five state legislatures and countless school boards have acted over the past two years to move schools away from the discredited approach to teaching reading investigated in the APM Reports podcast Sold a Story.Now, two mothers in …
New reading laws sweep the nation following Sold a Story
Nov 18, 2024 · A ‘reading reset’ Both Democrats and Republicans have been pushing efforts to base instruction on the science of reading. For example, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, wants to spend more than $160 million over two years to implement the science of reading statewide.The money would buy new curricula, train educators and hire 100 literacy coaches.
Judges use ‘arbitrary,’ ‘horrendous’ reasons to keep teens in adult ...
Mar 20, 2024 · Maryland automatically charges more teens as adults than almost any other state. An analysis of recent decisions found that some judges rely on what juvenile justice advocates say is unfair reasoning to keep those young people in adult court.
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Two centuries of school discipline | Spare the Rod | APM Reports
Aug 25, 2016 · Discipline has been part of American schooling from its beginning. The debate has been how it should be achieved. Some educators have believed in harsh discipline methods like corporal punishment, suspension or expulsion.
Why aren't kids being taught to read? | Hard Words | APM Reports
Sep 10, 2018 · Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.
Parker Yesko - APM Reports
Jan 6, 2020 · Before joining APM Reports in 2017, Parker Yesko reported on criminal justice, housing and inequality in the U.S. and abroad. Her work has appeared on Morning Edition, Weekend All Things Considered, NPR's Embedded, PRI's The World, Snap Judgment, Harper's and The Guardian. As an intern on NPR's national desk, she reported on the lawsuits filed against President Trump in the first months of his ...
The podcast that's changing education | APM Reports
Nov 1, 2024 · Nationally acclaimed journalist Emily Hanford's work is changing the ways schools around the country teach reading. In this award-winning podcast, she investigates why so many schools use an approach that cognitive scientists debunked decades ago.
S2 E3: The Gun | In the Dark - APM Reports
May 8, 2018 · The case against Curtis Flowers relies on three threads of evidence: the route that witnesses say he walked the morning of the murders, the gun that prosecutors say he used to shoot four employees at Tardy Furniture, and the people he supposedly confessed to while in jail. In this episode, we investigate the alleged murder …
5 takeaways from our series on St. Louis homicide investigations
Jun 10, 2024 · From 2014 through 2020, St. Louis had the highest homicide rate in the country among cities with 250,000 people or more. St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports spent nearly two and a half years fighting to access public information about the police department’s efforts to solve these killings.