14: The Cuts
· 38 min · S1 E14
Episode 14: The Cuts
Education research is at a turning point in the United States. The Trump administration is slashing government funding for science and dismantling the Department of Education. We look at what the cuts mean for the science of reading — and the effort to get that science into schools.
Read: Trump cancels survey of high schoolers Read: Nation’s Report Card at risk Read: Lawsuit saves massive reading experiment Read: Transcript of this episode
Carolyn Riehl: Medical research and education research
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Links in the notes 10
- https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/trump-cancels-survey-of-high-schoolers?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral
- https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/researchers-nations-report-card-at-risk?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral
- https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/lawsuit-saves-reading-experiment-trump-cuts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral
- https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2025/08/21/sold-a-story-e14-the-cuts#transcript
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/3699784
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmAxCgFDuLQ
- https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/discussion-guide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral#s01e14
- https://support.americanpublicmedia.org/sold-a-story-sn
- https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral
- https://soldastory.org/extracredit
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