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New today from Christopher Peak A look at a EdReports, one of the most powerful gatekeepers influencing the instructional materials schools buy. apmreports.org/story/2025/03/…

Are we following the wrong leader? apmreports.org/story/2025/03/…

That's true if the bank's currency is compatibility with Common Core. Reliable evidence of boosting student learning? Nope.

Sold a Story has a new mini-series. We found a high-poverty school district where nearly every kid can read well. They’ve been teaching the same way for 25 years. But a new law, inspired by our reporting, put that at risk. All three episodes are out now.

These are so good! Success for All is quietly working in over 800 schools.

This three part series is important. It highlights: 1/4

New: NPR's standards editor seemingly accidentally sent an email to the entire newsroom today advising All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro against attending a pride event. Shapiro said NPR has previously allowed him to attend similar corporate events, and asked what changed.

.Robert Pondiscio: Three new episodes of Emily Hanford’s groundbreaking 'Sold a Story' podcast about reading success in Steubenville, Ohio, have a lot to teach about following evidence and sticking with what works buff.ly/JLLJWIi

Sold a Story was featured in this weekend’s New York Times: “This American Public Media podcast lays out how a deeply flawed teaching method took hold despite having been widely debunked by cognitive scientists.” nytimes.com/2025/03/29/art…

For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed. nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/…

Harvard officials were shocked that such an important letter — bearing the logos of three government agencies, with signatures of three top officials at the bottom — could be sent by a mistake. nytimes.com/2025/04/18/bus…

Many schools rely on an organization called EdReports when deciding which reading programs to purchase. But there's a problem with that.

How many students have been on the receiving end of just plain lousy curriculum because leaders abdicated their due diligence to Edreports?

RT Emily Hanford: This part of the story is so important! States need to know that a "green" rating does not guarantee that a reading program works. Mississippi led the way by using research, not ratings, to inform our work - driving real results in literacy known as the

I couldn’t be more happy for the In the Dark team, which has always set the bar for investigative podcasting. Huge congrats to Madeleine Baran, Samara Freemark, Parker Yesko, Natalie Jablonski, Rehman Tungekar and Catherine Winter on the Pulitzer!

“We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” one college professor said, of students’ reliance on ChatGPT. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

NPR and three public radio stations sue President Trump, alleging his executive order to cut off federal funding violates the Constitution and their First Amendment rights. nytimes.com/2025/05/27/bus…

Success for All, the school reform model featured in Sold a Story, received $13.5 million from an anonymous donor to expand to 150 more schools. the74million.org/article/scienc…