APM's Fall Education Docs

APM's in-depth investigations and documentaries strive to raise awareness, trigger debate, and prompt positive change.

APM's in-depth investigations and documentaries strive to raise awareness, trigger debate, and prompt positive change. APM journalists shine light on the truth with distinctive reporting.

The documentary unit of APM has produced more than 130 programs on topics such as health, history, education and justice. Current documentaries are featured here.

APM's Fall Education Documentaries are available at no additional charge. All offerings are included in your affiliation fee.

APM's award-winning documentary team has created two new education specials for fall 2022, available for broadcast beginning August 2, 2022.

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    Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries

    One hour
    Broadcast Window: August 2, 2022 - December 31, 2022
    In this documentary, students take the microphone to share their stories as they strive to use a college education to support themselves, and their communities, without losing sight of who they are.
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    No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School

    One hour
    Broadcast Window: August 10, 2022 - December 31, 2022
    Producer DJ Cashmere, who is white, spent seven years teaching Black and brown students at a Noble Street charter high school in Chicago. Noble followed a popular education reform model called "no excuses," which promised low-income students better test scores and increased access to college in exchange for hyper-strict discipline. After DJ left the classroom to become a journalist, Noble disavowed "no excuses," calling it "assimilationist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and anti-black." In this hour, DJ revisits his old school as it tries to remake itself.
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Awards

APM's investigative unit (formerly APM Reports) has won some of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including:

  • AERA Award for Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research
  • Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Gold, Silver Batons
  • George Polk Award
  • National Press Foundation Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress
  • Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award
  • American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Allen Awards
  • Mental Health America Media Awards
  • Education Writers Association National Awards
  • ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting

You can share this award-winning journalism with audiences at no additional charge. All Fall Education Documentaries are included in your affiliation fee.

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