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Stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn. From APM Reports.
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Introducing: Sold a Story
Emily Hanford introduces the first episode of her new podcast, Sold a Story.
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway i...
No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School
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...
Standing in Two Worlds BONUS episode
Camille Leihulu Slagle is Native Hawaiian. She always knew she wanted to go away for college. Education would help her afford to stay in her homeland....
Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries
Native American students are just a tiny fraction of all the college students in the United States. They come with different histories, confronting an...
Under Pressure: The College Mental Health Crisis
Even before the pandemic, campus counselling services were reporting a marked uptick in the number of students with anxiety, clinical depression and o...
Fading Beacon: Why America is Losing International Students
Colleges and universities in the United States attract more than a million international students a year. Higher education is one of America’s top ser...
Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 4: This very leaky pipeline
Today, more Black and Hispanic teachers enter the classroom through alternative pathways than through traditional teacher degree programs. The number...
Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 3: The trouble with grading teachers
Critics of the rise in alternative and for-profit programs will claim teacher quality, and student learning, suffers when people are fast-tracked into...
Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 2: The rise of the for-profit teacher training industry
Beginning in the early 1980s, a lot of states began to open up the pathways to becoming a teacher. People who already had a bachelor’s degree in somet...
Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 1: The teacher emergency
Every president since Eisenhower has talked about the need for more teachers, especially in certain rural and urban schools, and in subjects such as m...
Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus
Lauren Brown says college was "culture shock." Most of the students at her high school were Black, but most of the students at the University of Misso...
What the Words Say
Everyone agrees that the goal of reading instruction is for children to understand what they read. The question is: how does a little kid get there? E...
Covid on Campus
The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already str...
Same Pandemic, Unequal Education (from Us & Them podcast)
The coronavirus pandemic has left West Virginia schools particularly hard hit. The Us & Them podcast from West Virginia Public Radio brings us stories...
Facing uncertain futures, high school seniors weigh tough college options and alternate paths
Editor-in-chief of The Hechinger Report, Liz Willen, shares what she's heard from high school seniors who are feeling anxious and overwhelmed as they...
Listeners tell us how they're adapting to at-home education
Teachers, students and families talk about how they've adapted while schools and campuses stay closed.
Is learning to read a constitutional right?
A federal court recently ruled that underfunded schools in Detroit violated students' right to a basic education. Advocates hope the case is the begin...
A few silver linings emerge in a dark time of closed schools
Delece Smith-Barrow of The Hechinger Report shares some hopeful stories about education during the pandemic.
'Everything has changed': A look at K-12 education under coronavirus
Sarah Garland of The Hechinger Report on how (and whether) education carries on while schools are closed.
College in the time of coronavirus
A conversation with Hechinger Report higher education editor Jon Marcus on how learning and the college experience are changing, and what's yet to com...
What good is a history major?
As fewer college students opt to major in history, there's an effort by history departments to prove the practical value of their discipline.
Graduation rate for Native students surges at the University of Minnesota
The percentage of Native students graduating from the U of M has doubled in the past decade.
Black girl, white college
When it was time for me to enroll in a four-year college, I chose North Dakota State, a school that's mostly white, conservative and insular -- everyt...
College administrators struggle with whether to close their classrooms in response to COVID-19
Some students say they want campuses to remain open.
A conundrum for student advocates: change their school or change society?
Unlike protesters at many universities, activists at Harvard seek social justice reforms beyond campus.
At some HBCUs, enrollment rises from surprising applicants
After decades of declining enrollment, HBCUs are seeing an uptick in new applicants, especially among Latino and international students.
With more students demanding action on climate change, teachers try to keep up
Most states and districts have adopted science standards that require teaching climate change. Teachers are left to get up to speed and help students...
Reading update: Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids
A first of its kind review finds Lucy Calkins' materials don't align with the science of reading.
New salvos in the battles over reading instruction
Several powerful people and organizations have weighed in on the national conversation prompted by APM Reports' podcast episodes.
National assessment shows more K-12 students struggling to read
Correspondent Emily Hanford talks about the latest NAEP results and what they say about the state of reading instruction in the U.S.
A conversation with Emily Hanford on reading instruction in the U.S.
Hanford talks about her reporting on what's wrong with how schools teach reading.
Ditching the lecture for active learning
There's a growing movement at colleges and universities to create classrooms where students take the lead.
How colleges are mishandling racial tensions on campus
As administrators navigate issues of inclusion and free speech, students of color have been left to find their own way.
As colleges navigate inclusion and free speech, students of color work to find their own way
Do administrators have to choose between protecting free speech and creating a civil climate on campus?
Flagship universities don't reflect their state's diversity
Across the country, a gap persists between the number of black and Latino students graduating from state high schools and the number enrolling in stat...
The Bond Buster
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...
At a Loss for Words: What's wrong with how schools teach reading
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly...
Students on the Move: Keeping uprooted kids in school
A growing body of research finds that repeatedly uprooted children are more likely to struggle in school and more likely to drop out. But there are wa...
Under a Watchful Eye: How colleges are tracking students to boost graduation
At Georgia State in Atlanta, more students are graduating, and the school credits its use of predictive analytics. But critics worry that the algorith...
Tens of thousands of dollars later, most college grads say the degree was worth it
A recent survey from the APM Research Lab found most Americans think college is worth the cost.