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: <a href="https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/trump-cancels-survey-of-high-schoolers?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">Trump cancels survey of high schoolers</a> Read: <a href="https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/researchers-nations-report-card-at-risk?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">Nation’s Report Card at risk</a> Read: <a href="https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/lawsuit-saves-reading-experiment-trump-cuts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">Lawsuit saves massive reading experiment</a>  Read: <a href="https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2025/08/21/sold-a-story-e14-the-cuts#transcript" class="default">Transcript of this episode</a>Carolyn Riehl: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3699784" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">Medical research and education research</a>  Call us: (612) 888-7323 Email us: <a href="mailto:soldastory@apmreports.org" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">soldastory@apmreports.org</a> Donate: <a href="https://support.americanpublicmedia.org/sold-a-story-sn" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">Support our journalism</a> More: <a href="https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">soldastory.org</a>  Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a multi-part email series from host Emily Hanford. We’ll also keep you up to date on new episodes. Sign up at <a href="https://soldastory.org/extracredit" class="Hyperlink SCXW216002192 BCX0">soldastory.org/extracredit</a>.

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