EpisodeMarking Stories of Slavery
In this hour we look at how slavery is represented in the classroom and on historic sites.
EpisodeSecrecy in the “Sunshine Era”
Electronic health records can save billions of dollars and increase patient safety. But in the United States, they can also put individual privacy at risk, more so than in …
EpisodeLandscapes of Longevity
Image via Landscapes of Longevity project Blue zones are areas of the world that have been identified as having the longest expected lifespans. Reuben Rainey and Asa Eslocker (University of Virginia) …
EpisodeReplay: The Future of Higher Education
In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the future of a bricks and mortar education. …
EpisodeSummer Melt and the Z-Degree
Bob Templin (Northern Virginia Community College) is president of one of the largest community colleges in the nation. He’s launched an innovative program that prepares the burgeoning population of Latino …
EpisodeReplay: First in the Family
Courtesy chadmill via Flickr Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these students, entering academia can …
BlogSTEM Education in America: A Year-Long Investigation
About the series: After President Obama launched an “Educate to Innovate” campaign for STEM education, With Good Reason began a year-long investigation into how minority students in public schools are taught …
EpisodeBeyond the Books
Image courtesy United States Navy American teens spend approximately two million minutes in high school. With Good Reason talks with Bob Compton about how kids in America, China, and India …
EpisodeThe Future of Higher Education
In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the future of a bricks and mortar education. …
EpisodeReplay: The Legacy of Massive Resistance
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the substandard school facilities provided for …
EpisodeSTEM vs. the Humanities?
We have a way of talking about STEM fields as the opposite of the humanities–but it’s hard to have one without the other. Debbie Sterling of Goldieblox believes that combining …
EpisodeReplay: The Legacy of Massive Resistance
When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. The closure lasted five years and was …
