2022 FALL EDUCATION DOCS
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APM's investigative unit is a collection of journalists and documentary producers, editors, researchers and digital producers dedicated to producing high quality reporting on issues that are often shrouded from public view.
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Overview
APM's investigative unit is a collection of journalists and documentary producers, editors, researchers and digital producers dedicated to producing high quality reporting on issues that are often shrouded from public view.
Length
One hour each.
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Broadcast Window
Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries
August 2, 2022 - December 31, 2022
No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School
August 10, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries
Archie Yellow: Archie is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and studies Ojibwe at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.
Nevaeh Nez: Nevaeh is a Hopi and Navajo student at the University of Minnesota-Rochester who's planning to go to medical school.
Reuben Kitto Stately: Reuben is Dakhóta from the Santee Sioux Nation and a tribal member of Red Lake Nation who majored in American Indian Studies at Augsburg University.
No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School
DJ Cashmere: DJ is a journalist whose print work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, Chalkbeat, and The Hechinger Report. His radio work has aired on Marketplace Morning Report and he currently serves as a producer on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris. DJ, who is white, taught in K-12 schools in Chicago for eight years before becoming a journalist. He currently lives in New York with his family.
Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries
Broadcast window: August 2, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Native American college students take listeners inside the quest to earn degrees. U.S government boarding schools were once used to erase Indigenous culture and force assimilation.
But in the 21st century, education opens opportunities. 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.
No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School
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. And he searches out his former students to ask them how they feel about the time they spent in his classroom, whether they believe they received a racist education, and whether, if given the chance, they'd opt for "no excuses" all over again.
Broadcast Rights
Affiliate stations may carry either or both of these programs at no charge until January 1, 2023. Multiple broadcasts are allowed. Programs must be carried in their entirety; no excerpting is permitted. Streaming Rights: Stations can either request an embed code for audio player, or they can get the audio from Radio Public. Prior to carrying this series, stations must confirm carriage with American Public Media.
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