Emily Hanford

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• APM Reports: At a Loss for Words - What's wrong with how schools teach reading

  An MPR News Presents broadcast of the APM Reports education documentary “At a Loss for Words - What's wrong with how schools teach reading.” A look at how a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers.

  Aug. 28, 201959 minSave
• APM Reports: Hard Words - Why aren't our kids being taught to read?

  An APM Reports documentary, titled “Hard Words: Why aren't our kids being taught to read?,” which looks at the science of teaching children to read, and the disconnect of that science with educators. It’s a battle between phonics and whole language theory…leaving millions of children unable to read.

  Sep. 13, 201859 minSave
• APM Reports: Still Rising - First Generation College Students a Decade Later

  An MPR News Presents broadcast of the APM Reports education documentary “Still Rising - First Generation College Students a Decade Later.” A look back at two students ten years after their initial efforts to gain a higher education.

  Sep. 11, 201859 minSave
• APM Reports: Hard to Read - How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia

  An MPR News Presents broadcast of the APM Reports education documentary “Hard to Read - How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia.” There are proven ways to help people with dyslexia learn to read, and a federal law that's supposed to ensure schools provide kids with help. But across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.

  Sep. 14, 201752 minSave
• Greater Expectations: The Challenge of the Common Core

  Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled “Greater Expectations: The Challenge of the Common Core,” which looks at how the United States is in the midst of a huge education reform. The Common Core State Standards are a new set of expectations for what students should learn each year in school.

  Sep. 10, 201459 minSave
• Tomorrow’s College: Don't Lecture Me

  Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled Don't Lecture Me, which looks at how some are rethinking the way college students learn.

  Oct. 4, 201159 minSave
• Testing Teachers

  Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled Testing Teachers. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with the worst teachers. Politicians and education reformers are calling for big changes in how teachers are trained and evaluated…and in the way teachers are hired and fired too.

  Oct. 6, 201059 minSave
• Early Lessons

  Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled “Early Lessons,” which explores the history of preschool.

  Oct. 30, 200959 minSave
• Put to the Test

  Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary, produced in association with North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, titled “Put to the Test.” The documentary follows students, teachers, and administrators from Western Guilford High School as they navigate the requirements of No Child Left Behind.

  Sep. 7, 200759 minSave