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 sw...
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20 of 300 episodesNo 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, Nobl...
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...
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, conf...
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 depres...
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...
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. T...
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-tr...
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 degre...
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...
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 Universit...
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 ge...
Covid on Campus
The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were a...
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...
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 overwhelme...
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...
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...