Two centuries of school discipline | Spare the Rod | APM Reports
Aug 25, 2016 · Discipline has been part of American schooling from its beginning. The debate has been how it should be achieved. Some educators have believed in harsh discipline methods like corporal punishment, suspension or expulsion.
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Child kidnappings that captured our attention - APM Reports
Oct 4, 2016 · The stereotypical kidnapping of a child by a stranger is vanishingly rare, accounting for less than 1 percent of all missing child cases. When the crimes do happen, they make an impact, tapping into some of the public's greatest fears …
At a Loss for Words - APM Reports
Aug 22, 2019 · When kids struggle to learn how to read, it can lead to a downward spiral in which behavior, vocabulary, knowledge and other cognitive skills are eventually affected by slow reading development.3 A disproportionate number of poor readers become high school dropouts and end up in the criminal justice system.4 The fact that a disproven theory about how reading works is still driving the way many ...
The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country | Uprooted | APM Reports
Nov 1, 2019 · In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian Problem." It would assimilate Native Americans by moving them to cities and eliminating reservations. The 20-year campaign failed to erase Native Americans, but its effects on Indian Country are still felt today.
Judges use ‘arbitrary,’ ‘horrendous’ reasons to keep teens in adult ...
Mar 20, 2024 · Maryland automatically charges more teens as adults than almost any other state. An analysis of recent decisions found that some judges rely on what juvenile justice advocates say is unfair reasoning to keep those young people in adult court.
Under scrutiny, company that claimed to help troubled youth …
Apr 26, 2022 · Five years ago, Sequel Youth & Family Services ran a chain of treatment programs that took in and tried to help troubled kids from all over the United States. It was valued by investors at more than $400 million. The company dreamed of dominating America’s $220 billion behavioral health care industry.
The history of the GI Bill - APM Reports
Sep 3, 2015 · A staggering 16 million soldiers returned home from World War II, and millions of them went to school. Because GI Bill benefits were generous enough to pay for any college in the country, veterans flooded all types of institutions, from elite schools like Harvard to large state schools, to vocational schools. By 1947, half of all college students in America were veterans.
It took nearly 27 years to solve a notorious child abduction. Why?
Dec 30, 2016 · Chapters: 1. Jacob 2. Danny Heinrich 3. Dan Rassier 4. Reckoning. Podcast: → All episodes → iTunes | More options. Prologue. It was around 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 22, 1989, when 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling put on his red hockey jacket and left his house to bike to the video store in the dark with his younger brother and his best friend.
Inconclusive: The truth about lie detector tests - APM Reports
Sep 20, 2016 · The police subjected Jacob Wetterling's parents, Jerry and Patty, to polygraph testing after their son was abducted in 1989."It's horrible," recalled Patty, who was tested by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. "They wire you up. They ask you a bunch of questions to get a base line.