NPR Topics: Education Podcast

Stories: 1) Before 'Brown V. Board,' Mendez Fought California's Segregated Schools 2) Segregation: Six Decades Dead In Court, But Still Alive In Many Schools 3) A School Lunch Denied Prompts Powerful Action In A World Of Words 4) A First Black Professor Remembers Her Segregated Education

Stories: 1) Books With Gay Themes Put S.C. Colleges' Funding At Risk 2) Why Aren't Teens Reading Like They Used To? 3) Under Restructured Rules, Kansas Teachers Lose Tenure 4) Beating The Odds To Become First Female Chief Nuclear Officer

Stories: 1) After Decades, A University By And For Latinos Will Shut Its Doors 2) Feds List Schools Under Investigation For Abuse Claims 3) Many Seniors Accepted To First-Choice Colleges Go Elsewhere 4) College Applicant Had 'Fingers Crossed For A Full Ride'

Stories: 1) Northwestern Players To Vote On Historic Union Question 2) Alternatives Emerge To Affirmative Action 3) Columbia Comes Under Fire For Handling Of Sexual Assault Cases 4) Northwestern Players Cast Union Vote — But Results Will Have To Wait

Stories: 1) A Scientific Experiment: Field Trips Just For Teachers 2) Six Words: 'Segregation Should Not Determine Our Future' 3) 15 Years After Columbine, Are Schools Any Safer? 4) New York's Muslims Push For Public Schools To Close For Eid Holidays

Stories: 1) Making Math And Microscopes More Accessible 2) Boston Finds That Quality Preschool Is Worth The Effort 3) School Lunch: Any Chicken In Those 'Food-Like Nubbins'? 4) Keep It Brief, Commencement Speakers! No One Will Remember Anyway

Stories: 1) Report: Widespread Racial Disparities In Public School Punishments 2) Indiana Cuts The Core Without Telling Teachers What Comes Next 3) Principal Encourages Immigrant Students To Aim For Middle Class 4) Maze Of College Costs And Aid Programs Traps Some Families

Stories: 1) Efforts To Close The Achievement Gap In Kids Start At Home 2) Does Teaching Kids To Get 'Gritty' Help Them Get Ahead? 3) 'I, Too, Am Harvard': A Mantra For Recognition Becomes An Anthem 4) Balancing College Dreams With Financial Realities

Stories: 1) What The U.S. Can Learn From Finland, Where School Starts At Age 7 2) 'Unproductive Anxiety' And The Solo Act Of Essay Writing 3) N.Y. Governor Says College For Inmates Will Pay Off For Taxpayers

Stories: 1) Will President's Initiative Be A 'Game-Changer' For Young Men Of Color? 2) Post A Survey On Mechanical Turk And Watch The Results Roll In 3) Ex-'Post' Owner Raises Scholarships For Kids In U.S. Illegally 4) Can Playing Minecraft Teach Kids To Code?

Stories: 1) Fed Up With Zero Tolerance In Schools, Advocates Push For Change 2) Duke: $60,000 A Year For College Is Actually A Discount 3) A College Project That Imagines A Floating City For Oil Workers 4) The Business Of Frats: Shifting Liability For Trauma And Injury

Stories: 1) A Push To Boost Computer Science Learning, Even At An Early Age 2) Schools Fall Behind In Helping Students With Mental Health Issues 3) Survey: Students' Personal Data Are At Risk 4) College Applicants Sweat The SATs. Perhaps They Shouldn't

Stories: 1) It Takes More Than A Produce Aisle To Refresh A Food Desert 2) Secret Message In An Econ Textbook, Finally Decoded 3) Tennessee Weighs The Cost Of A Free College Education 4) Dr. Wikipedia: The 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Crowdsourced Medicine

Stories: 1) Part-Time Professors Demand Higher Pay; Will Colleges Listen? 2) The High Cost Of Testing For College 3) 'American Promise' Probes Race Issues In NYC Private School

Stories: 1) Violence Abroad Threatens Students, As Do Guns At U.S. Schools 2) A Reading Teacher Who Lost The Ability To Read 3) Teacher Job Protections Vs. Students' Education In Calif. 4) Obama Expected To Propose Expanding Preschool Programs