Christopher Peak
Reporter for APM Reports
- In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Chinese universities have been steadily climbing in global rankings that emphasize volume and quality of research, overtaking American institutions — a trend that could accelerate following the Trump administration’s cuts. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
- On @newyorker.com this month: Emily Hanford’s podcast, Sold a Story, helped transform what had been a relatively obscure academic debate into an approachable subject for laypeople. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. apnews.com/article/educ...
- "Sold a Story" is again on the list of Apple Podcasts' most shared shows of 2025: www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
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- A lot of what we know as the science of reading was funded by the federal government. We’ve spent the last few months reporting on what the Trump administration’s cuts mean for that research. Listen here (or wherever you get podcasts): www.apmreports.org/episode/2025...
- New York City’s third-grade reading proficiency shot up nearly 13 points — to 58% — on this year’s state standardized test. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/n...
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- "Adopting a new curriculum is only a first step. Real change is like training for a marathon: buying the right gear doesn’t build endurance." www.the74million.org/article/trul...
- Research doesn't support using "multisensory" instruction to teach reading, but it's being legislated. "Not that doing multisensory things is going to be harmful," one expert said, but don't expect "those are going to make the difference." www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
- In 2014, 11% of children ages 0 to 2 in the UK spent one to three hours a day on a screen. By 2019, that percentage rose to 42%, according to the National Literacy Trust. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
- 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. www.the74million.org/article/scie...
- 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. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
- “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/intelligence...
- 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. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
- For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
- 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.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/a...
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- 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 podcast episodes are out now.
- What if I told you that in a small, rust belt city, where abandoned buildings line the streets, kids are doing better in reading than in some of the richest school districts in America? www.youtube.com/shorts/KsBNf...
- NYT: The Education Department announced on Tuesday that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
- DOGE is likely subject to FOIA, a federal judge ruled. The agency had argued it was acting as an advisor to the president, putting its records off-limits until at least 2034. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
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