Educate

26/01/2024

Sold a Story won a duPont-Columbia Award last night. It was a moving and inspiring ceremony. Read about the other winners and finalists here: https://dupont.org/2024-winners-finalists
This is me with reporter Christopher Peak and editor Catherine Winter (Chris Julin was home in Duluth with the dog). Lots of people made it possible. Including Chris Worthington, Emily Haavik, Andy Kruse and many more.

04/08/2022

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.

An audio documentary from APM Reports.

23/04/2022

Reading Recovery — a one-on-one tutoring program for first graders — has long been controversial because it’s based on a theory about how people read words that was disproven decades ago by cognitive scientists.

Initial gains from first-grade intervention didn’t last and kids performed worse in third and fourth grade.

20/11/2021

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, two of the biggest names in literacy education, are doubling down on a disproven reading theory that encourages the use of pictures and context to read words. https://www.apmreports.org/story/2021/11/19/fountas-pinnell-disproven-childrens-reading-theory

The education professors double down on a flawed approach that encourages pictures and context to read words. Heinemann — their publisher — faces harsh criticism.

19/08/2021

The final episode of this season's podcast is now live. Take a listen. Made in partnership with Call to Mind. CC: APM Reports

Under Pressure: Inside 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 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?

Colleges are struggling to meet the surging demand for mental health services on campus, and some schools are wrestling with how much care they owe students.

17/08/2021

Big congrats to our team (Lauren Brown, Alex Baumhardt, Chris Julin, Catherine Winter and Sabby Robinson) for being awarded the Edward R. Murrow national network radio award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion from the Radio Television Digital News Association for Black at Mizzou: Confronting Race on Campus. CC: APM Reports

An audio documentary from APM Reports.

04/08/2021

Did you hear about the new "Fading Beacon" documentary on NPR this morning? Take a listen: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/04/1024566809/u-s-schools-aim-to-lure-foreign-students-back-who-shied-away-during-the-pandemic

Find the full doc, here: https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2021/08/03/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 service exports, generating $42 billion in revenue. But the money spigot is closing. The pandemic, visa restrictions, rising tuition and a perception o...

03/08/2021

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. Colleges depend on tuition from these students. But the money spigot is closing...

Fading Beacon, a new documentary from Educate, APM Reports and Chronicle of Higher Education, traces America’s rise as a global beacon for higher education and examine what’s lost as that changes. LISTEN NOW.

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 o...

29/07/2021

If you've been enjoying the new season of Educate so far, you might also like this accompanying piece about the for-profit teacher training industry.

Texas Teachers of Tomorrow has become the largest teacher training program in the nation, offering a low-cost online program. While it’s lowered barriers and helped diversify the workforce, this approach to training hasn’t solved chronic teacher shortages.

28/07/2021

Today is the day! All four episodes of the new Educate podcast (about teacher shortages) are live now. Take a listen... 🎧

A four-part series by APM Reports, launching July 28.

27/07/2021

A new season of Educate launches tomorrow! This season, we're focused on teacher shortages...

Teacher shortages are an age-old problem and it’s not because the U.S. doesn’t produce enough teachers, we simply haven't been able to keep them. In this season, “Educate” will get to the root of the problem and how attempts to address the shortages have affected the teacher workforce we have today.

A four-part podcast series by APM Reports.

13/04/2021

“Moving, disturbing, a daring nontraditional approach that gives us deep insights into the experience of Black students on college campuses.”

Our documentary Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus won first place for audio storytelling from the Education Writers Association today.

Read more here: https://www.ewa.org/first-prize/audio-storytelling-smaller-newsroom

Listen to the story here:

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2020/08/14/black-at-mizzou

An audio documentary from APM Reports.