Two centuries of school discipline | Spare the Rod | APM Reports
WEBAug 25, 2016 · 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
WEBMay 29, 2018 · 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
WEBAug 22, 2019 · 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
WEBSep 20, 2016 · 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
WEBSep 10, 2018 · 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."
Influential literacy expert Lucy Calkins is changing her views
WEBOct 16, 2020 · 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.
Child kidnappings that captured our attention - APM Reports
WEBOctober 4, 2016 | by Madeleine Baran and Jennifer Vogel. The stereotypical kidnapping of a child by a stranger is vanishingly rare, accounting for less than 1 percent of all missing child cases. When the crimes do happen, they make an impact, tapping into some of the public's greatest fears and insecurities. They also reveal society's prejudices.
What is the Common Core? - APM Reports
WEBAug 25, 2014 · 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.
Kurt Hahn and the roots of Expeditionary Learning - APM Reports
WEBSep 10, 2015 · Kurt Hahn at Gordonstoun House in 1938. Hahn was headmaster of two private boarding schools in Europe and founder of Outward Bound. Gordonstoun. Early in his life, Kurt Hahn had a vision of the kind of school he wanted to create, and it was nothing like the school he went to. Hahn was born in Germany in 1886 to a wealthy Jewish family.
S2 E1: July 16, 1996 | In the Dark - APM Reports
WEBMay 1, 2018 · On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississippi, and murdered four employees. Each was shot in the head. It was perhaps the most shocking crime the small town had ever seen. Investigators charged a man named Curtis Flowers with the murders. What followed was a two-decade legal odyssey in which Flowers was tried six times for the same crime.