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    Introducing: Sold a Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 34:04


    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 in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended. Subscribe: soldastory.org

    No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 52:01


    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 a popular model called "no excuses." Its schools required strict discipline but promised low-income students a better shot at college. After DJ left the classroom to become a journalist, Noble disavowed its own policies — calling them "assimilationist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and anti-black." In this hour, DJ, who is white, revisits his old school as it tries to reinvent itself as an anti-racist institution. And he seeks out his former students to ask them how they felt about being on the receiving end of all that education reform, and what they think now about the time they spent in his classroom.

    Standing in Two Worlds BONUS episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2022 22:13


    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. Life in the islands is expensive. Camille wants to give back to her people through science, studying the volcanoes central to Hawaiʻi's landscape and culture. Audio documentary: Standing in Two Worlds

    Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2022 50:20


    Native American students are just a tiny fraction of all the college students in the United States. They come with different histories, confronting an education system once used to erase their languages and cultures. In this project, four Indigenous college students tell how they are using higher education to strengthen ties to their Native roots and support their people. Photos: See portraits of the students in this documentary

    Under Pressure: The College Mental Health Crisis

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2021 51:03


    Even before the pandemic, campus counselling services were reporting a marked uptick in the number of students with anxiety, clinical depression and other serious psychiatric problems. What is a college's responsibility for helping students navigate mental health challenges, and how well are colleges rising to the task? Read more: Inside the college mental health crisis

    Fading Beacon: Why America is Losing International Students

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2021 51:05


    Colleges and universities in the United States attract more than a million international students a year. Higher education is one of America's top service exports, generating $42 billion in revenue. But the money spigot is closing. The pandemic, visa restrictions, rising tuition and a perception of poor safety in America have driven new international student enrollment down by a jaw-dropping 72 percent. Read more: The U.S. may never regain its dominance as a destination for international students. Here's why that matters.

    Coming Soon: Who Wants to Be a Teacher?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 3:29


    Many schools around the country are struggling to find enough teachers. Large numbers of teachers quit after a short time on the job, so schools are constantly struggling to replace them. The problem is particularly acute at rural schools and urban schools. The most common level of experience of teachers in the United States now is one year on the job. At the same time, enrollment in teacher training programs at colleges and universities is plummeting, and schools are looking to other sources to fill classrooms. In Nevada, a desperate need for teachers this year led to allowing people with just a high school diploma to fill in as substitutes. Oklahoma recently changed its law to allow people with a bachelor's degree — in anything — to teach indefinitely on emergency teaching certificates. Schools in Texas are increasingly turning to for-profit teacher training programs. Data we obtained shows that nearly one in four of the teachers hired in Texas last year came through a single for-profit online program — one that's now making its way into other states. We'll look at the implications of these changes, both for children and for the teaching force.

    Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 4: This very leaky pipeline

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 20:22


    Today, more Black and Hispanic teachers enter the classroom through alternative pathways than through traditional teacher degree programs. The number of teachers of color in the United States has more than doubled since the 1980s in large part due to the growing number of preparation and certification pathways and recruitment efforts from the federal level down. But there's a catch: Many of these teachers won't stay for long, further undermining efforts to get diversity in the teacher labor force to reflect the diversity of students in the United States. Learn more: Who wants to be a teacher?

    Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 3: The trouble with grading teachers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 21:55


    Critics of the rise in alternative and for-profit programs will claim teacher quality, and student learning, suffers when people are fast-tracked into the classroom without comprehensive training. But it's hard to know for certain whether that's true. The problem is, despite decades of trying, we haven't agreed on how to measure teacher quality. There's a lot of research that shows having a good teacher makes a huge difference in the outcomes of students, but it's much less clear what makes a teacher good. Learn more: Who wants to be a teacher?

    Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 2: The rise of the for-profit teacher training industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 34:47


    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 something else didn't need to go back to college to get trained in teaching. Policymakers hoped this would solve teacher shortages by getting more people into the profession, but it's also opened up a whole new business model in educator preparation: Online for-profit teacher training programs have proliferated, and they're growing fast. One program in Texas has become the single largest educator preparation program in the United States by enrollment, and it's expanding into other states. Learn more: Who wants to be a teacher?

    Who wants to be a teacher? Episode 1: The teacher emergency

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 30:04


    Every president since Eisenhower has talked about the need for more teachers, especially in certain rural and urban schools, and in subjects such as math and science. For decades, policies have been made and laws changed in order to recruit and train more and more teachers. But research shows we've been looking at the problem wrong, and that these efforts haven't solved teacher shortages at all, but have created an oversize labor force with less training, less experience and high rates of turnover. Learn more: Who wants to be a teacher?

    Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2020 52:18


    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 Missouri were white. And she got to the university in the fall of 2015, when Black students led protests in response to a string of racist incidents. The protests put Mizzou in the national news. But the news stories didn't match what Lauren saw. They made it seem like racism on campus was an aberration. And they made it seem like Black student organizing was new at Mizzou. What Lauren saw was "Black Mizzou," a thriving campus-within-a-campus that Black students have built over decades to make the university a more welcoming place.

    What the Words Say

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 51:59


    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? Emily Hanford explores what reading scientists have figured out about how reading comprehension works and why poverty and race can affect a child’s reading development. Read the full story.

    Covid on Campus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 52:27


    The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already struggling won’t survive. Other schools, large and small, are rethinking how to offer an education while keeping people safe. This program explores how institutions are handling the crisis, and how students are trying to navigate a major disruption in their college years. Colleges on the brink The long tradition of students attending small, residential liberal arts colleges around the country was already shaky before the pandemic. Students are choosing less expensive options and more practical degrees. Experts warn that 10 percent of American colleges — about 200 or more institutions — are on the verge of going under. The pandemic is accelerating that trend. A digital divide The pandemic is making getting through college harder for students on the wrong side of the digital divide. In rural Arizona, when campuses closed, some students couldn’t log on from home, because they had no access to the internet. A local sheriff flew laptops and hotspots to community college students on the Navajo Nation. Reopening in a virus hotspot Colleges and universities are under pressure to reopen, but bringing students back on campus safely means dealing with dizzying logistics. As the virus surges in Miami, a large commuter campus gets ready.

    Same Pandemic, Unequal Education (from Us & Them podcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2020 12:06


    The coronavirus pandemic has left West Virginia schools particularly hard hit. The Us & Them podcast from West Virginia Public Radio brings us stories of teachers grappling with virtual classes for students who don't have access to the internet and how schools are trying, still, to keep kids fed.

    Same Pandemic, Unequal Education (from Us & Them podcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 12:06


    The coronavirus pandemic has left West Virginia schools particularly hard hit. The Us & Them podcast from West Virginia Public Radio brings us stories of teachers grappling with virtual classes for students who don't have access to the internet and how schools are trying, still, to keep kids fed.

    Facing uncertain futures, high school seniors weigh tough college options and alternate paths

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 17:28


    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 face pandemic-fueled challenges.

    Facing uncertain futures, high school seniors weigh tough college options and alternate paths

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 17:28


    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 face pandemic-fueled challenges.

    Listeners tell us how they're adapting to at-home education

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 14:01


    Teachers, students and families talk about how they've adapted while schools and campuses stay closed.

    Listeners tell us how they're adapting to at-home education

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 14:01


    Teachers, students and families talk about how they've adapted while schools and campuses stay closed.

    Is learning to read a constitutional right?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 22:03


    A federal court recently ruled that underfunded schools in Detroit violated students' right to a basic education. Advocates hope the case is the beginning of a trend.

    Is learning to read a constitutional right?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 22:03


    A federal court recently ruled that underfunded schools in Detroit violated students' right to a basic education. Advocates hope the case is the beginning of a trend.

    A few silver linings emerge in a dark time of closed schools

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 19:30


    Delece Smith-Barrow of The Hechinger Report shares some hopeful stories about education during the pandemic.

    A few silver linings emerge in a dark time of closed schools

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 19:30


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 16:46


    Sarah Garland of The Hechinger Report on how (and whether) education carries on while schools are closed.

    'Everything has changed': A look at K-12 education under coronavirus

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2020 16:46


    Sarah Garland of The Hechinger Report on how (and whether) education carries on while schools are closed.

    College in the time of coronavirus

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2020 28:19


    A conversation with Hechinger Report higher education editor Jon Marcus on how learning and the college experience are changing, and what's yet to come.

    College in the time of coronavirus

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2020 28:19


    A conversation with Hechinger Report higher education editor Jon Marcus on how learning and the college experience are changing, and what's yet to come.

    What good is a history major?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2020 19:14


    As fewer college students opt to major in history, there's an effort by history departments to prove the practical value of their discipline.

    What good is a history major?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2020 19:14


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2020 20:39


    The percentage of Native students graduating from the U of M has doubled in the past decade.

    Graduation rate for Native students surges at the University of Minnesota

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2020 20:39


    The percentage of Native students graduating from the U of M has doubled in the past decade.

    Black girl, white college

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2020 29:11


    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 -- everything I wasn't. It was the hardest year of my life.

    Black girl, white college

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2020 29:11


    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 -- everything I wasn't. It was the hardest year of my life.

    College administrators struggle with whether to close their classrooms in response to COVID-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 27:35


    Some students say they want campuses to remain open.

    College administrators struggle with whether to close their classrooms in response to COVID-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 27:35


    Some students say they want campuses to remain open.

    A conundrum for student advocates: change their school or change society?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2020 27:59


    Unlike protesters at many universities, activists at Harvard seek social justice reforms beyond campus.

    A conundrum for student advocates: change their school or change society?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2020 27:59


    Unlike protesters at many universities, activists at Harvard seek social justice reforms beyond campus.

    At some HBCUs, enrollment rises from surprising applicants

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 24:39


    After decades of declining enrollment, HBCUs are seeing an uptick in new applicants, especially among Latino and international students.

    At some HBCUs, enrollment rises from surprising applicants

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 24:39


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 22:29


    Most states and districts have adopted science standards that require teaching climate change. Teachers are left to get up to speed and help students understand the impacts.

    With more students demanding action on climate change, teachers try to keep up

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 22:29


    Most states and districts have adopted science standards that require teaching climate change. Teachers are left to get up to speed and help students understand the impacts.

    Reading update: Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 35:15


    A first of its kind review finds Lucy Calkins' materials don't align with the science of reading.

    Reading update: Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 35:15


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2019 46:21


    Several powerful people and organizations have weighed in on the national conversation prompted by APM Reports' podcast episodes.

    New salvos in the battles over reading instruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2019 46:21


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2019 25:29


    Correspondent Emily Hanford talks about the latest NAEP results and what they say about the state of reading instruction in the U.S.

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