Two centuries of school discipline | Spare the Rod | APM Reports
网页2016年8月25日 · Between 1890 and 1918, high school enrollment increased by 711 percent. The traditional one-room schoolhouse gave way to multiple, stratified classrooms and a principal who oversaw them. This new hierarchy of adults meant the principal, not the teacher, started to dole out discipline. After World War II, teachers began to unionize.
Letter from Parchman: Inside Mississippi's notorious prison
网页2018年5月29日 · This is the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a notorious prison in the Delta often referred to as Parchman Farm, where Curtis Flowers has spent most of the past two decades. He's been incarcerated since his arrest, on Jan. 13, 1997, for allegedly murdering four people at Tardy Furniture in Winona.
At a Loss for Words - APM Reports
网页2019年8月22日 · When kids struggle to learn how to read, it can lead to a downward spiral in which behavior, vocabulary, knowledge and other cognitive skills are eventually affected by slow reading development.3 A disproportionate number of poor readers become high school dropouts and end up in the criminal justice system.4 The fact that a disproven theory about how reading works is still driving the way many ...
Inconclusive: The truth about lie detector tests - APM Reports
网页2016年9月20日 · It's difficult to definitively assess how well lie detectors work because there are many definitions of deception and many ways of measuring the results, including those deemed "inconclusive." But a skeptical 2003 report from the National Academy of Sciences found that polygraphs work at rates well above chance, though far below perfection.
Why aren't kids being taught to read? | Hard Words | APM Reports
网页2018年9月10日 · The human brain isn't wired to read. Kids must be explicitly taught how to connect sounds with letters — phonics. "There are thousands of studies," said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. "This is the most studied aspect of human learning."
Emily Hanford - APM Reports
网页2024年4月11日 · Emily Hanford is a senior correspondent and producer at APM Reports and host of Sold a Story, the groundbreaking investigative podcast that’s changing how kids are taught to read. Sold a Story was one of the most-shared shows on Apple Podcasts in 2023 and one of Time Magazine’s top podcasts of the year. It has won numerous honors including a duPont, an Edward R. Murrow and a Peabody ...
Influential literacy expert Lucy Calkins is changing her views
网页2020年10月16日 · Update (Oct. 21): Five days after APM Reports published this story, Lucy Calkins posted a response on Facebook.The response confirms that her group at Columbia University is making changes to its curriculum. Calkins wrote that her group, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, is adding a yearlong phonological awareness curriculum and will be releasing a set of decodable books.
What is the Common Core? - APM Reports
网页2014年8月25日 · The Common Core stems from a school reform movement that started in the 1980s. Back in 1983, President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education published an influential report called A Nation at Risk.It warned of a “rising tide of mediocrity” in American public schools and asserted that the nation was failing to meet the need for a highly-trained, competitive workforce.
S1 E1: The Crime | In the Dark - APM Reports
网页2016年9月7日 · The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national requirement that states track sex offenders via registries, took place before moonrise on a warm October night in 1989. Around 9:20, three boys — including 11-year-old Jacob, who loved steak, football and the color blue — rode home along a dead-end road on their bikes and scooter from the Tom ...
Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids
网页2020年1月27日 · The report was released by the nonprofit educational consulting group Student Achievement Partners (SAP). The group asked prominent reading researchers to review Calkins' Units of Study, more commonly known as "reading workshop."It appears to be the first time a group of reading researchers has reviewed a curriculum and determined whether the lessons reflect more than 40 years of scientific ...