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.
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."
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 …
S1 E5: Person of Interest | In the Dark - APM Reports
网页2016年9月27日 — On the morning of Oct. 23, 1989, investigators gazed down at the myriad tire tracks and shoe prints crisscrossing the rural driveway near where Jacob Wetterling was last seen the night before. The police walked the edges of the loose gravel, where a bloodhound had traced the 11-year-old's scent.
The history of the GI Bill - APM Reports
网页2015年9月3日 — A staggering 16 million soldiers returned home from World War II, and millions of them went to school. Because GI Bill benefits were generous enough to pay for any college in the country, veterans flooded all types of institutions, from elite schools like Harvard to large state schools, to vocational schools. By 1947, half of all college students …
Kurt Hahn and the roots of Expeditionary Learning - APM Reports
网页2015年9月10日 — 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.
How a massive voter purge in Georgia affected the 2018 election
网页2019年10月29日 — Abrams would later call the purge the "use-it-or-lose-it scheme." An APM Reports investigation last year estimated 107,000 of the people purged under the policy would otherwise have been eligible to vote last year, just like Baiye. PART 1 GA registration deadline prevented 87,000 from voting last year.
Acquitting Emmett Till's killers | In the Dark | APM Reports
网页2018年6月5日 — The jury of 12 white men who acquitted Emmett Till's killers in 1955. AP. In the early morning hours of August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, his half-brother, J.W. Milam, and perhaps several other people, barged into the Leflore County home of a black sharecropper named Moses Wright. In front of Wright's family, Milam and Bryant kidnapped his 14-year ...
It took nearly 27 years to solve a notorious child abduction. Why?
网页2016年12月30日 — Patty Wetterling talks about the night of Jacob's abduction Video by Jeff Thompson for APM Reports. The Wetterlings arrived home to find the kids panicking. Jacob's brother, Trevor, talked nonstop, trying to explain to his parents what had just happened. Jacob's best friend Aaron stood in the corner biting his nails.