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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Acquitting Emmett Till's killers | In the Dark | APM Reports
WEBJun 5, 2018 · 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 ...
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.
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."
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.
'All of us failed' - APM Reports
WEBSep 20, 2018 · A number of law enforcement's critical missteps were reported in Season 1 of APM Reports' "In the Dark" podcast, released just after Heinrich's confession. Investigators failed to thoroughly canvass Jacob Wetterling's neighborhood in the days after his disappearance, they didn't connect the Wetterling …
The history of HBCUs in America - APM Reports
WEBAug 20, 2015 · Throughout the first half of the 20th century, black colleges thrived. They attracted top black students — the best and the brightest. Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, Tuskegee — these schools and others like them trained the lion’s share of the nation’s black doctors, lawyers, dentists, teachers and other professionals.