APM Reports

07/24/2025

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 comes to elementary reading skills. Schools that have dropped the program cite logistical challeng...

07/09/2025

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.

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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.

06/12/2025

This bill’s passage comes a year after we revealed that dozens of hospitals violated a 49-year-old law.

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The bill’s passage comes a year after APM Reports revealed that dozens of hospitals violated the 49-year-old law.

05/28/2025

Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.

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Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.

04/09/2025

Minnesota cities outside of the Twin Cities have been more lenient in allowing buildings to pass inspections despite knowledge of substandard living conditions.

MPR News found problems tied to inspections and local political pressures that leave low-income renters in potential danger across greater Minnesota. In Bemidji, those problems have pushed their way to the surface.

03/06/2025

March 6 is Day, a national day of action run by Protect My Public Media with the goal to celebrate public media and advocate for public media funding.

Learn more: https://www.americanpublicmedia.org/action

03/06/2025

This is the third episode of a three-part miniseries.

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EPISODE 13: The List

Steubenville became a model of reading success. Then a new law in Ohio put it all at risk. In this episode, we look at the "science of reading" lists some states are making, why the program Steubenville has been using for 25 years isn't getting on many of these lists, and the surprising power of one curriculum review group.

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02/27/2025

This is the second of three new episodes. Out today.

EPISODE 12: The Evidence

There's a name for the program at the heart of Steubenville's remarkable reading results. It's called Success for All. It's been around for decades, and numerous studies have shown it's effective. But relatively few school districts use it. We trace the history of the program and why it's never really caught on.

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02/25/2025

02/20/2025

New episode out today: soldastory.org

Episode 11: The Outlier

There's a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. Many of the wealthiest places in the country can't even say that. And Steubenville is a Rust Belt town where the state considers almost all the students "economically disadvantaged." How did they do it?

This is the first of three new episodes. Listen to the podcast at soldastory.org.

02/05/2025

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the past 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

12/16/2024

Instead of regulating fertilizer, Iowa backs a voluntary program that has little impact.