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Alex Baumhardt

Alex Baumhardt

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Alex Baumhardt produces APM Reports' Educate podcast. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and was a 2016-17 Fulbright graduate student in Spain, where she earned a master's degree in digital and visual media from IE Business School. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.


Stories

July 28, 2021

An audio documentary by APM Reports

We’ve spent decades trying to alleviate teacher shortages. Our attempts have dramatically changed the teacher workforce, but the shortages remain.

July 28, 2021

Texas company fuels rise of for-profit teacher training programs

Texas Teachers of Tomorrow has become the largest teacher training program in the nation, offering a low-cost online program. While it’s lowered barriers and helped diversify the workforce, this approach to training hasn’t solved chronic teacher shortages.

July 28, 2021

We’ve spent decades trying to alleviate teacher shortages. Our attempts have dramatically changed the teacher workforce, but the shortages remain.

A four-part podcast series by APM Reports.

August 14, 2020

Confronting race on campus

An audio documentary from APM Reports.

May 7, 2020

Listeners tell us how they're adapting to at-home education

Teachers, students and families talk about how they've adapted while schools and campuses stay closed.

April 16, 2020

'Everything has changed': A look at K-12 education under coronavirus

Sarah Garland of The Hechinger Report on how (and whether) education carries on while schools are closed.

April 9, 2020

College in the time of coronavirus

A conversation with Hechinger Report higher education editor Jon Marcus on how learning and the college experience are changing, and what's yet to come.

March 26, 2020

Graduation rate for Native students surges at the University of Minnesota

The percentage of Native students graduating from the U of M has doubled in the past decade.

March 5, 2020

At some HBCUs, enrollment rises from surprising applicants

After decades of declining enrollment, HBCUs are seeing an uptick in new applicants, especially among Latino and international students.

February 27, 2020

With more students demanding action on climate change, teachers try to keep up

Most states and districts have adopted science standards that require teaching climate change. Teachers are left to get up to speed and help students understand the impacts.

November 1, 2019

National assessment shows more K-12 students struggling to read

Correspondent Emily Hanford talks about the latest NAEP results and what they say about the state of reading instruction in the U.S.

October 24, 2019

A conversation with Emily Hanford on reading instruction in the U.S.

Hanford talks about her reporting on what's wrong with how schools teach reading.

September 5, 2019

Flagship universities don't reflect their state's diversity

Across the country, a gap persists between the number of black and Latino students graduating from state high schools and the number enrolling in state flagship schools.

August 29, 2019

How one man has spent 25 years thwarting bond money for rural districts

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the Midwest — have also created lingering bitterness within communities.

March 11, 2019

Tens of thousands of dollars later, most college grads say the degree was worth it

A recent survey from the APM Research Lab found most Americans think college is worth the cost.

February 25, 2019

Majority of Americans don't know that government has cut billions from higher education funding

A survey from the APM Research Lab shows that many people think funding has increased or stayed the same.

January 28, 2019

U.S. continues to slip behind other countries in percentage of population with degrees

A lack of highly skilled workers leaves American employers unable to fill jobs.

December 17, 2018

Oklahoma charter school becomes lightning rod in debate over rural education

A businessman struggling to recruit employees opened the school despite objections from the local school board.

December 3, 2018

Hundreds of thousands of people could lose their legal status. One hopes to graduate with his college degree first

If the Trump administration has its way, Jose would be forced from the U.S. just a few months before graduation.

November 5, 2018

Despite decades of pledging to hire more black faculty, most universities didn't

The number of black faculty on college campuses has gone down during the last decade.

October 22, 2018

As they lose customers, universities try expanding the menu

Colleges nationwide have added more than 40,000 new degree and certificate programs in last six years, but are they better serving students?

October 8, 2018

In the fight over Kavanaugh, echoes of a battle being waged on college campuses nationwide

Across the country, schools wrestle with how sexual assault is defined and how much proof is needed.

August 13, 2018

School on the move

A little-known program has been helping the children of migrant farmworkers graduate for more than 50 years.

July 30, 2018

Edged out of the middle class, teachers are walking out

Dissatisfied with low pay and school funding, teachers in more red states are poised to protest.

July 16, 2018

State financial aid money dries up before many low-income college students get help

Last year, almost a million students who qualified for state financial aid didn't get it.


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