NPR Topics: Education Podcast
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Podcasts:
Stories: 1) Ole Miss Turns Scary Racial Incident Into Teachable Moment 2) Tell Me More: Education Special And Twitter Chat 3) Superintendent's Effort To Do Right By His Kids 4) Hear the #NPRAspen Education Chat
Stories: 1) Dear Harvard, My Career Deserved More Respect 2) Study: Teacher Prep Programs Get Failing Marks 3) New Report Finds Many Teachers Aren't Ready To Teach 4) Home-Schooled Students Fight To Play On Public School Teams
Stories: 1) Are There Jobs Out There For Recent Grads? 2) In Middlebury, Vt., Teens Train For Careers In The 'A.R.T.'s 3) Can Federal Funds Help Social Service Groups Work Smarter? 4) Graduation Rates Hit New High: Good News For Everyone?
Stories: 1) Obama Presses Congress On Student Loan Rates 2) High School Newspapers: An Endangered Species 3) Teacher Feature: Ethnobotanist Tom Carlson 4) Obama Pushes To Keep Student Loan Rates Down
Stories: 1) Navajo Schools Lose Funding Due To Sequestration Cuts 2) War Of Words: France Debates Teaching Courses In English 3) Online College Courses Get A Big Boost, But Doubts Persist
Stories: 1) Growing Vegetables From Seeds Takes Root For Many Gardeners 2) Mont. One-Room School House Boasts International Diversity 3) Sandy Hook's Future: What's To Become Of The School? 4) Losers In Chicago School Closings Target Elected Officials
Stories: 1) All Races Attracted To HBCU Campuses 2) Latino High School Grads Enter College At Record Rate 3) Utah Charter School Nurtures Entrepreneurial Spirit 4) LA Schools Throw Out Suspensions For 'Willful Defiance'
Stories: 1) How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap 2) 30 Years On, Educators Still Divided On Scathing Schools Report 3) Dissatisfied, Parents In Indianapolis Start Their Own School 4) Suspension Rates 'Shock The Conscience,' Says Researcher
Story: Activists, filmmakers, and even the president invoke the conventional wisdom that there are more black men in prison than in college. Ivory Toldson, a professor at Howard University, says that's a myth; he explains his findings to host Michel Martin.
Stories: 1) Creative Classes: An Artful Approach To Improving Performance 2) More Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test 3) At The Spelling Bee, Spelling Is No Longer Enough 4) Jazz In The Cafeteria: Kids Learn To Listen While They Chomp
Stories: 1) Loan Education Becomes Prerequisite As Student Debt Balloons 2) Cursive Club Tries To Keep Handwriting Alive 3) Even 'Highly Motivated' Students Aren't Ready For College 4) Getting Over Rejection, From College
Stories: 1) A Hot Topic: Climate Change Coming To Classrooms 2) Phoenix Schools Under Fire For Program Linked To Scientology 3) Chicago Teachers, Parents Riled By Plan To Close 54 Public Schools 4) After Newtown Shooting, New Attention Focused On Armed School Officers
Stories: 1) How To Be The Good Guy With A Gun At School 2) School Closings: How Administrations Decide 3) Controversial Chicago School Closings Outrage Parents, Teachers
Stories: 1) News Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning? 2) Faced With Massive Budget Cuts, Philadelphia Plans To Shutter 23 Schools 3) Are There Too Many Ph.D.s And Not Enough Jobs? 4) Harvard Searched Resident Deans' Email Accounts After Cheating Scandal Leak
Stories: 1) Florida Atlantic Donation Sparks Outrage, But University Doesn't Budge 2) Teaching 2.0: Is Tech In The Classroom Worth The Cost? 3) Skipping Out On College And 'Hacking Your Education' 4) Manslaughter Charges Upgraded In Florida A&M Hazing Case