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At a Loss for Words: What's wrong with how schools teach reading

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeate...

Students on the Move: Keeping uprooted kids in school

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Moving a lot is hard on school kids. And millions of children in the United States have unstable housing. A growing body of research finds that re...

Bought by WUFT

Under a Watchful Eye: How colleges are tracking students to boost graduation

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cos

Bought by WUFT and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Hard Words: Why aren't our kids being taught to read?

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some case...

Bought by 'The Sea', WUNC, Interlochen Public Radio, KOSU, WMUU-LP and more

Old Idea, New Economy: Rediscovering Apprenticeships

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

You might think apprenticeships are a relic from an earlier era, but a growing number of Americans are using them as a way into the middle class. I...

Bought by 'The Sea', Interlochen Public Radio, WOSU, WMUU-LP, WLPR and more

Still Rising: First-generation college students a decade later

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

At 19, Mario Martinez felt fortunate to have escaped his rough neighborhood and enrolled in a community college. But the odds that he would earn hi...

Bought by 'The Sea', WUNC, WMUU-LP, WLPR , WUFT and more

Changing Class: Are colleges helping Americans move up?

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Colleges have long offered a pathway to success for just about anyone. But new research shows that with the country growing ever more economically ...

Bought by WUNC, WMUU-LP, WLPR , WAER Syracuse, NY, and KMXT

Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford

(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more

Shackled Legacy: Universities and the Slave Trade

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Frank Campbell was a teenager when he was sold to keep Georgetown University afloat. He was one of some 272 enslaved people sold by Jesuits in Maryland to plantations in Louisiana., Credit: Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University

(9/4/2017) As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.

Bought by WWNO, WMUU-LP, WNCU, WUFT, KOSU and more

Keeping Teachers

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Teacher Christopher McFadden is a member of The Fellowship, a group in Philadelphia trying to recruit and retain black male teachers. Only 2 percent of teachers in American public schools are black men., Credit: Emily Hanford

(8/28/2017) There may be nothing more important in the educational life of a child than having effective teachers. But the United States is struggl...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Historically Black Promos

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Historically Black

Historically Black reveals intimate and surprising aspects of history through interviews, archival sound, and music. The episodes are hosted by pop...

Bought by WBHM, WMUK, WMUU-LP, WUFT, WAMU and more

Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

After an abrupt reversal 20 years ago, some prisons and colleges try to maintain college education for prisoners.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, KUER, WSKG and more

What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Schools in Miami and Pasadena ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, WSKG, WRIR and more

Spare the Rod: Reforming School Discipline

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WSKG, KUER, WRIR and more

Stuck at Square One: The Remedial Education Trap

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap, Credit: Lila Cherneff

A system meant to give college students a better shot at succeeding is actually getting in the way of many, costing them time and money and taking ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, KOSU, KFCF FM, WSKG and more

Campaign '68

From: American Public Media

Many see similarities between the presidential election campaign of 2016 and one almost half a century earlier. The 1968 presidential campaign was...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KERA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more

Bought and Sold

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.

Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Thirsty Planet

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: Residents of India, Israel confront water issues such as flooding, drought, pollution, and lack of access by the poor.

Scientists say most people on Earth will first experience climate change in terms of water — either too much or too little. This documentary explor...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, WVPE, WRIR and more

Beyond the Blackboard: Building Character in Public Schools

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in New York conquers a high ropes course., Credit: Stephen Smith

In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to teach young men the skills they needed to surv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WITF, Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more

From Boots to Books: Student Veterans and the New GI Bill

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith

The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more

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