A podcast from @bellvoices about inequity in the NYC school system from students who know it best // Listen and subscribe 👇
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We're FINALISTS in the @EdWriters National Awards for Education Reporting! 🥳
Last year's series, "Questioning the Status Quo," is one of three finalists in the Student Journalism category, alongside entries from Harvard and Michigan State University.
Please help us celebrate Bree, Shoaa, and Jose – and our entire team of 10 students – who reported the series! You can listen to the entire series here.
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Resharing this primer on MLK’s 6 Steps of Nonviolent Social Change 🎧 💪
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Listen now on the Miseducation podcast 🎧🎙️🎉
We were thrilled to partner with @ChalkbeatNY on this new @MiseducationPod episode about the extent to which schools should regulate students’ social media use and enforce discipline for cyber bullying
100k drop out a year?! That would be alarming if it were anywhere close to true. 😒
NYC spends $38k per pupil and most kids don’t learn at grade level and 100k a year drop out. There are similar stories across the country. This should be the focus of American education policy debate not the nuances of admissions policies at elite schools.
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In the fourth and final part of Missing Voices, we turn our attention to the news industry. Its persistent diversity problem is widely known. But whose job is it to fix?
Featuring @hgitty @emmanuelfelton + more.
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Against significant odds, three small New York City public high schools try to launch student newspapers.
Listen to Part 3 of our Missing Voices series to find out how it goes.
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Missing Voices Part 2 is out now.
Seemingly every NYC high school used to have a student newspaper. Where did they all go? And can a scrappy new effort bring them back? Tune in. 🎧
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Welcome to Missing Voices, a four-part series on the journalism gap in New York City public schools — and why it should concern us all.
Part one is available now. 🎧
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“We should be investing in children. We should be investing in education. And this mayor is failing to prioritize children and families in this moment.”
- @Jasgripper of @AQE_NY
Don’t miss the last episode of the season from Janina.
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… And that’s a wrap on Season 7 — Questioning the Status Quo! All 10 episodes available now 🙌
Thanks to @NYAmNews for the feature!
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"Central Park East reported only $64 in PTA funding in 2019. That’s 13 cents per student. Meanwhile, my school, Beacon, had a PTA budget of almost $700,000 — $481 per student."
Don't miss Bernie's excellent story on inequity in arts funding.
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Featuring Kim Olsen of @nycaier, which is advocating for more arts funding in this year's city budget.
Want to know what a week of school lunch in New York City looks like?
Tovi Tankoano has the story.
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“After this many instances, how do we not have some sort of plan?”
In 2020, schools all over committed themselves to anti-racism, but how's that going? Bree Campbell takes a hard look at her school, and the NYC school system.
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New York is one of just 8 states that still uses high school exit exams.
As the @NYSEDNews Board of Regents considers amending graduation requirements, Denisse Merino reported this in-depth story on Regents exams and possible alternatives.
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Did you know that @NYCSchools does not mandate comprehensive sex ed?
Listen to this deep dive from Shoaa Khan on how the uneven standards fall short. This is the second in our 10-part series, Questioning the Status Quo.
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IT'S HERE. After eight months of pitching, researching, reporting, tape gathering, scripting, tracking, cutting, and mixing, we are so excited to introduce "Questioning the Status Quo."
Up first, Jose Santana takes on school start times and their negative effects on student sleep, performance and mental health.
Can students, sleep experts, and the head of his school come to consensus on a new start time? Listen to find out.
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As we've been hard at work on our next season, we received some good news! Last year's season "In Our Own Voices," has been named 1 of 3 audio finalists for @EdWriters 2022 National Awards for Education Reporting!
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Last month, our team went down South for a staff road trip from Memphis to New Orleans. We weren't planning to make a podcast episode.
Then we visited Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
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Did you know that school districts are hiring companies to track students online?
Don't miss our latest story from @SXSWEDU @EdWriters about how data monitoring systems marketed as safety tools are causing some students harm.
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