Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...
Stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn. From APM Reports.
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 sw...
Producer DJ Cashmere spent seven years teaching Black and brown students at a Noble Street charter high school in Chicago. At the time, Nobl...
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...
Native American students are just a tiny fraction of all the college students in the United States. They come with different histories, conf...
Even before the pandemic, campus counselling services were reporting a marked uptick in the number of students with anxiety, clinical depres...
Colleges and universities in the United States attract more than a million international students a year. Higher education is one of America...
Today, more Black and Hispanic teachers enter the classroom through alternative pathways than through traditional teacher degree programs. T...
Critics of the rise in alternative and for-profit programs will claim teacher quality, and student learning, suffers when people are fast-tr...
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 degre...
Every president since Eisenhower has talked about the need for more teachers, especially in certain rural and urban schools, and in subjects...
Lauren Brown says college was "culture shock." Most of the students at her high school were Black, but most of the students at the Universit...
Everyone agrees that the goal of reading instruction is for children to understand what they read. The question is: how does a little kid ge...
The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were a...
The coronavirus pandemic has left West Virginia schools particularly hard hit. The Us & Them podcast from West Virginia Public Radio brings...
Editor-in-chief of The Hechinger Report, Liz Willen, shares what she's heard from high school seniors who are feeling anxious and overwhelme...
Teachers, students and families talk about how they've adapted while schools and campuses stay closed.
A federal court recently ruled that underfunded schools in Detroit violated students' right to a basic education. Advocates hope the case is...
Delece Smith-Barrow of The Hechinger Report shares some hopeful stories about education during the pandemic.
Sarah Garland of The Hechinger Report on how (and whether) education carries on while schools are closed.
A conversation with Hechinger Report higher education editor Jon Marcus on how learning and the college experience are changing, and what's...
As fewer college students opt to major in history, there's an effort by history departments to prove the practical value of their discipline...
The percentage of Native students graduating from the U of M has doubled in the past decade.
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...
Some students say they want campuses to remain open.
Unlike protesters at many universities, activists at Harvard seek social justice reforms beyond campus.
After decades of declining enrollment, HBCUs are seeing an uptick in new applicants, especially among Latino and international students.
Most states and districts have adopted science standards that require teaching climate change. Teachers are left to get up to speed and help...
A first of its kind review finds Lucy Calkins' materials don't align with the science of reading.
Several powerful people and organizations have weighed in on the national conversation prompted by APM Reports' podcast episodes.
Correspondent Emily Hanford talks about the latest NAEP results and what they say about the state of reading instruction in the U.S.
Hanford talks about her reporting on what's wrong with how schools teach reading.
There's a growing movement at colleges and universities to create classrooms where students take the lead.
As administrators navigate issues of inclusion and free speech, students of color have been left to find their own way.
Do administrators have to choose between protecting free speech and creating a civil climate on campus?
Across the country, a gap persists between the number of black and Latino students graduating from state high schools and the number enrolli...
Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids...
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have...
A growing body of research finds that repeatedly uprooted children are more likely to struggle in school and more likely to drop out. But th...
At Georgia State in Atlanta, more students are graduating, and the school credits its use of predictive analytics. But critics worry that th...
A recent survey from the APM Research Lab found most Americans think college is worth the cost.
A survey from the APM Research Lab shows that many people think funding has increased or stayed the same.
A lack of highly skilled workers leaves American employers unable to fill jobs.
A businessman struggling to recruit employees opened the school despite objections from the local school board.
If the Trump administration has its way, Jose would be forced from the U.S. just a few months before graduation.
The number of black faculty on college campuses has gone down during the last decade.
Colleges nationwide have added more than 40,000 new degree and certificate programs in last six years, but are they better serving students?
Across the country, schools wrestle with how sexual assault is defined and how much proof is needed.
An elite university helped her climb but changing class can be a lonely journey.
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 so...
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 c...