We also translated some of our articles. Puede leer sobre el Sistema de evaluación de la lectura (o Benchmark Assessment System, en inglés) aquí: apmreports.org/story/2023/12/…

'Probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine.” speech by my amazing The Associated Press colleague and now Academy Award-winning director Мstyslav Chernov

What a powerful moment, #OsageNation making history at #Oscars2024

Members of the Osage Nation arrive at the #Oscars

Scott George, nominated for “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon, is the first member of the Osage Nation to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Oklahoma Supt. Ryan Walters responds to nonbinary student’s death: “There’s not multiple genders. There’s two. That’s how God created us.” Trans students said rhetoric like that has effectively given classmates permission to bully them at school. nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/…

I believe the world needs more deep journalism that cuts through soundbytes & connects big wonky policy to the real, weird, beautiful, surprising lives of everyday people. That’s what I do. To reach out, follow my future work, see what’s next, pls go here: krissyclark.substack.com/p/coming-soon

Gutted to announce that after 6 amazing seasons Marketplace/APM is ending production of The Uncertain Hour. So proud of what we made. 🙏🙏for the ❤ you gave us, the stories & expertise you shared. Looking for new opps. Would love to find TUH a new home. Dreaming big. Meantime...

An IRS contractor leaked thousands of confidential tax records to The New York Times and ProPublica, exposing the loopholes billionaires use to pay little to no taxes. This week, he was sentenced to five years in prison. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

With every passing week, the light dims as journalists documenting the war in Gaza leave, quit or die. nytimes.com/2024/01/30/wor…

My former colleagues at APM Reports ⁦Christopher Peak⁩ ⁦Emily Hanford⁩ Catherine Winter win a prestigious DuPont award for their game-changing investigation revealing the prevalence of a discredited approach to reading instruction and who suffered, who benefited features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Sold a Story won a duPont-Columbia Award last night. We were in some amazing company. You can read about all the winners and finalists here: dupont.org/2024-winners-f…
The duPont-Columbia Awards Columbia Journalism Christopher Peak
Catherine Winter APM Reports

When Gallup asked teenagers for the three words that best described how they felt in school, the most common answers were bored, tired and pressured. nytimes.com/2024/01/29/ups…

New York *will* create a database that lists the beneficial owners of LLCs, but you (the public) just won't be able to look at it.

Hochul signed the LLC Transparency Act late yesterday, but not before she got the Legislature to agree to keeping the database private.

Those of us who use assessment and test scores as DVs in regressions rarely look under the hood of those assessments.

A cautionary tale about the Benchmark Assessment System (used in 1 in 6 elementary schools!):

apmreports.org/story/2023/12/…

A heartbreaking story from Christopher Peak uses careful pacing to capture the uneasy feeling of a mother discovering that her son’s school district is failing to accurately measure his reading progress.

See outstanding stories from the week in the newsletter. kappanonline.org/russo-a-boost-…

Research Matthew Burns goes into more detail about his studies of F&P BAS in the latest episode of The Literacy View podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

I created a whole tutoring program at SFPL because of SFUSD's commitment to ineffective F&P practices and was quickly overwhelmed by need. These students deserve to be taught at school.

Adults refused to admit mistakes/make changes and kids were harmed. apmreports.org/story/2023/12/…

New from Christopher Peak. apmreports.org/story/2023/12/…
Benchmark Assessment System reading test is widely used and often wrong
“Flipping a coin would actually be better” one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell.

I'm incredibly thankful for this deep dive on Fountas & Pinnell's BAS. This article was so needed.