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SOLD A STORY
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. This is the final episode of Season 1 of Sold a Story. ▻ Listen now
Companion pieces for Episode 14  
Lawsuit saves massive reading experimentThe Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. ▻ Read 
Nation's Report Card at riskNAEP is one of the few education initiatives the Trump Administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff, and the board overseeing the assessment has eliminated more than a dozen tests, citing “cost efficiencies.” ▻ Read 
A window into America's high schools slams shutFor decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. Trump put an end to that effort as part of his quest to dissolve the Department of Education. ▻ Read |