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 ...
Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids
WEBJan 27, 2020 · 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 ...
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."
The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country | Uprooted | APM Reports
WEBNov 1, 2019 · The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country. In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian Problem." It would assimilate Native Americans by moving them to cities and eliminating reservations. The 20-year campaign failed to erase Native Americans, but its effects on Indian Country are still felt today.
S1 E8: What's Going on Down There? | In the Dark - APM Reports
WEBOct 18, 2016 · In November 2012, a police officer named Tom Decker was shot and killed in Cold Spring, Minn., after getting out of his car to check on a man who lived above a bar. The man was quickly arrested and held in the Stearns County jail. He was interrogated but then released without charges. The state crime bureau later ruled him out as a suspect.
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.
Judges use ‘arbitrary,’ ‘horrendous’ reasons to keep teens in adult ...
WEBMar 20, 2024 · Maryland automatically charges more teens as adults than almost any other state. An analysis of recent decisions found that some judges rely on what juvenile justice advocates say is unfair reasoning to keep those young people in adult court.
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.