In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

An instructional program that originated in the 1960s has become one of the most effective and heavily researched in ...

An analysis of videos, 911 calls, fire department records and dispatch logs conducted by MPR News and APM Reports raises questions about whether the federal agency that mortally wounded Renee Macklin ...

Here’s a reading list put together by Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of our podcast Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong. I’ve chosen 10 things to recommend. I’ve read hundreds ...

Officer Jessica Heinzen heard the call come in from Brooklyn Park dispatch about a man “likely on drugs” threatening his roommates. She recognized the man’s name and the address of the group home ...

Sequel Youth & Family Services, a company that once sought to dominate the youth behavioral health industry, is facing growing financial turmoil amid new allegations of mistreating children. The ...

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the ...

Buildings burned all around Leeta Song’s family business in the nights after George Floyd’s murder. Arson and looting crippled the Lake Street commercial district, but Song hoped her neighbors would ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

Savannah is squinting as she thinks. The question she's trying to answer would be easy for most ninth graders: How many schools have you gone to? Savannah has to do some quick mental math. "About 14 ...

In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching another child inappropriately. “I asked her why she was doing that,” the babysitter texted the girl’s mother, “and she told me ...