Government officials across the Midwest face pressure to address high levels of nitrate pollution in water, which researchers have linked to illnesses including cancer, birth defects and thyroid ...

In spite of years of pressure from advocates, access to emergency contraceptives remains difficult for women who rely on the health care systems run by or on behalf of their tribal nations. APM ...

A publisher that once held a commanding share of the market for materials to teach and test reading has seen its sales drop significantly in recent years — a decline its attorney attributes to the ...

The organization that supports Reading Recovery teachers nationwide is facing serious financial challenges after states have pulled support and hundreds of school districts have dropped the ...

Pressure is mounting on two universities to change the way they train on-the-job educators to teach reading. The Ohio State University in Columbus and Lesley University near Boston both run prominent ...

Illinois hospitals violating landmark law protecting victims of sexual assault The state Department of Public Health inspects hospitals throughout the state for compliance with the Sexual Assault ...

Stanovich is a cognitive scientist who was a towering figure in the world of reading research until he quit doing it more than a decade ago. He was tired of the fighting and the politics and took up ...

An audio documentary from APM Reports.Producer DJ Cashmere spent seven years teaching Black and brown students at a Noble Street charter high school in Chicago. At the time, Noble followed a popular ...

Five years ago, Sequel Youth & Family Services ran a chain of treatment programs that took in and tried to help troubled kids from all over the United States. It was valued by investors at more than ...

Sequel Youth & Family Services, the company at the center of a 2020 APM Reports investigation, has agreed to close a New Mexico treatment center for children with autism after a state investigation ...

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, two of the biggest names in literacy education, are breaking their silence in the debate over how best to teach kids to read, responding to criticism that their ideas ...

Texas Teachers of Tomorrow produced by far the most new teachers in the 2017-18 school year. Of the newly hired teachers in Texas, 15,500 received their training from Texas Teachers of Tomorrow. The ...