Senior editor @apmreports. Minnesota transplant. Basement bass player. Thrift store aficionado. Cooking fiend. Board game enthusiast.
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The podcast I've been working on for the last year with @jm_miller & @davidmfuchs launches next week. It chronicles one of Utah's many teen treatment centers as it got pass after pass from the state gov't. Go to your podcast app and subscribe to Sent Away.
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Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56.
Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Emily Hanford’s first Sold a Story continues to have profound effects on the way we teach reading.
This is our coaching team watching the trailer for Sold a Story 2. Our principals will watch it this week. Watertown is ready. Thank you @ehanford
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Really proud of the reporters who put this story together!
A new investigation from MPR News finds a Liberian government official is running some Minnesota group homes from overseas.
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Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours: startribune.com/new-details-…
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Proud of my former student, @MPRnews's @tw_estelle, for her excellent story about why it's taking so long to rebuild properties that were destroyed by the arson fires that followed George Floyd's murder five years ago.
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Read the story: mprnews.org/story/2025/05/21…
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Many schools rely on an organization called EdReports when deciding which reading programs to purchase. But there's a problem with that.
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We turned our most recent Sold a Story episodes into a one-hour program for @reveal. You can hear it on public radio stations nationwide this weekend, and here: revealnews.org/podcast/readi…
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Check out the public radio show @reveal this weekend to hear their adaptation of #soldastory's deep dive into how the schools in Steubenville, Ohio consistently teach virtually all their third graders to read well.
The Outlier
Sold a Story Episode 11: There’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. How did they do it?
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We hosted @markseidenberg and @mcmacdonald at @PlanetWordDC to discuss "What's next in the science of reading?" We recorded it and now you can watch it: youtube.com/watch?v=mfeFw1ki…
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The Outlier
Sold a Story Episode 11: There’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. How did they do it?
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New episode of Sold a Story available now.
Episode 11: The Outlier
There's a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. How did they do it?
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Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are among the best little readers in the nation. For nearly 20 years, the elementary schools in this economically depressed area have produced better readers than some of the wealthiest places in the country.
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Attorneys in Massachusetts just filed a class-action lawsuit against Heinemann and its authors Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell in state court over what they allege are “deceptive” and “defective” reading programs. apmreports.org/story/2024/12…
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You might be familiar with our November Series Essential, but do you know the story behind Sold a Story? 📚
In her research. host @ehanford traveled to classrooms to observe teaching in real-time and uncover the truth behind low reading levels in elementary students.
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The story behind Sold a Story.
Watch now. 📽️📽️
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