In states with few legal protections, students say they’ve been unfairly punished at school
Students facing suspension and expulsion are granted vastly different rights depending on where they live, an NBC News investigation found.
The state took children from their parents — then failed to give them a ‘real’ education
Foster youth in Michigan say the classes they took in state-funded facilities didn’t count toward graduation. Some dropped out. “I felt destroyed,” one said, “like everything I did was for nothing.” Read more…
Read more… The state took children from their parents — then failed to give them a ‘real’ education
‘No light. No nothing.’ Inside Louisiana’s harshest juvenile lockup
Teens at the Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville were held in solitary confinement around the clock, shackled with leg irons and deprived of an education. Read more…
Read more… ‘No light. No nothing.’ Inside Louisiana’s harshest juvenile lockup
How Detroit’s ‘Fake Landlord’ Scam Is Forcing People Out of Their Homes
Detroit Today’s Stephen Henderson talks to Erin Einhorn about an NBC News/Outlier Media investigation that found as many as 1 in 10 tenants facing eviction in Detroit are in that situation because of the fake landlord scam. Listen here. Read the story here.
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Detroit’s fake landlord scam
Michigan Radio’s Stateside explores how fake property owners in Detroit are taking payments for home they do not own. Listen here (around 12 minutes in). Read the story here.
The ‘fake landlord’ scam destroys lives in Detroit. But culprits rarely face consequences.
As many as 1 in 10 tenants facing eviction in Detroit say they’ve been duped by con artists who’ve sold or rented out houses they didn’t own.
Into America Podcast: 8 Mile 4 Life
Their lives were shaped by segregation and the Birwood Wall. Listen here. Read the story here.
Built to keep Black from white
Erin and co-reporter Olivia Lewis discuss the enduring impact of segregation in Detroit. Listen here. Read the story here.
How Detroit’s Birwood Wall still divides
Journalists Erin Einhorn and Olivia Lewis join WDET’s Detroit Today to discuss how a remnant of the redlining era continues to function for its original intention. Listen here. Read the story here.
Built to keep Black from white
Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That’s not an accident. Read more…
Schools are sending kids to virtual classes as punishment. Advocates say that could violate their rights.
“This is the new face of denial of access to public education,” one advocate said. “Now it’s just easier and covered under the guise of Covid protection.” Read more…
Covid is having a devastating impact on children — and the vaccine won’t fix everything
“We’re going to almost need a New Deal for an entire generation of kids to give them the opportunity to catch up,” one advocate said. Read more…
Read more… Covid is having a devastating impact on children — and the vaccine won’t fix everything
3 families chose between online and in-person school. Now they’re questioning their decisions.
“My patience for home-schooling has left the building,” one exasperated parent said as she implored her children’s school to let her kids return to class. Read more…
After botching past elections, Detroit aims to avoid a ‘black eye’ in November
Detroit is recruiting and training thousands of election workers in hopes of getting it right — and ensuring every vote counts — when the presidency is at stake. Read more…
Read more… After botching past elections, Detroit aims to avoid a ‘black eye’ in November
The hunt for Michigan’s lost Democrats: Can Biden lure them back?
Donald Trump won Michigan in 2016 with help from Democratic voters who backed him or didn’t vote. Joe Biden will need their support to carry the state. Read more…
Read more… The hunt for Michigan’s lost Democrats: Can Biden lure them back?
When coronavirus closed schools, some Detroit students went missing from class. These educators had to find them.
“We’re relentless,” one school principal said. “I need to make sure my kids are getting the education they deserve.” Read more…
Thousands fled for their lives when two Michigan dams collapsed. More disasters are coming, experts say.
Aging dams around the country weren’t built for today’s weather. Without a major investment in repairs, thousands of people’s homes — and lives — could be in danger. Read more…
Detroit, still clawing back from financial crisis, reels as coronavirus claims lives
“It seems like one after another after another, and it’s just hitting close to home,” one city leader said. Read more…
Read more… Detroit, still clawing back from financial crisis, reels as coronavirus claims lives
Reset
The biggest experiment in online learning, ever COVID-19 has shut schools all over the country, and millions of American students are now learning at home, online. Host Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks to NBC News national reporter Erin Einhorn about whether online tools enough to make up for lost classroom time? Listen here.
Into America podcast: Into the future of Lordstown, Ohio
Into the future of Lordstown, Ohio: An Ohio car town faces the challenges of a changing economy. Host Trymaine Lee talks with National Digital Reporter Erin Einhorn about her reporting in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, why voters in the area are divided on their pick for 2020, and how the local community is working to carve…
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Parents pay thousands for ‘brain training’ to help kids with ADHD and autism. But does it work?
Some families say they’ve seen transformative benefits from programs that claim to rewire the brain. But many researchers say the evidence is thin. Read more…
Kicking kids out of preschool is damaging, experts say. So why is it still happening?
Despite laws cracking down on preschool expulsions, thousands of young children a year are put out of school. Read more…
Read more… Kicking kids out of preschool is damaging, experts say. So why is it still happening?
‘It makes us better teachers because we’re not carrying it inside’: How a Detroit preschool helps teachers cope with the stress of the job
A Detroit-area preschool is taking a therapeutic approach to addressing the impact on educators of what’s known as “secondary trauma,” the distress that comes from learning about difficult things that have happened to others. Read more…
The children of 8B: One classroom, 31 journeys, and the reason it’s so hard to fix Detroit’s schools
By the time she’d reached the eighth grade, Shantaya Davis had attended so many schools — at least five — that she couldn’t name them all. “I don’t even know what grade it was,” she said of one school. Read more… This story is part of the series Moving Costs: How students changing schools disrupts Detroit…
‘Possible, but daunting’: Inside Nikolai Vitti’s early effort to transform Detroit’s battered public schools
Three months after taking on one of the most daunting tasks in American education, Nikolai Vitti was having a fit over pizza — $340,000 worth of pizza. Vitti, Detroit’s new school superintendent, had just discovered that the district had set aside that eye-popping sum of money last year to pay Domino’s Pizza for what he…
On a superintendent’s first day, just another Tuesday for 37 Detroit first-graders with no music or art or gym
Spend a morning in a Detroit classroom and it quickly becomes clear exactly how much will have to change in this city before it looks anything like the “mecca” that Vitti imagines. Read more…
This American Life: Settling the Score
Erin Einhorn grew up begging her mother to tell her all about the remarkable story of how she survived World War Two, thanks to a Polish woman named Honorata Skowronski, who risked her life. But her mother didn’t like to talk about it. And somehow, her family didn’t consider Honorata a hero. So Erin went…
The Challenge of Manufacturing a Diverse Campus
A charter in Detroit that sought to attract families of all races and incomes is seeing real integration. But it might not stay that way. Read more…
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The Extreme Sacrifice Detroit Parents Make to Access Better Schools
Some parents have to travel six hours and take up to eight buses each day to take their kids to better schools outside of their neighborhoods. Read more…
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The Extreme Sacrifice Detroit Parents Make to Access Better Schools
Some parents have to travel six hours and take up to eight buses each day to take their kids to better schools outside of their neighborhoods. Read more…
Read more… The Extreme Sacrifice Detroit Parents Make to Access Better Schools
A plea from the mom of a trouble-making toddler
I never imagined I’d be the sort of mom who’d make a scene in a toddler music class. I certainly never imagined I’d be the sort who would scoop up her kid with one arm while using the other to jab her finger, scolding, in the face of a dumbfounded dad. Read more…
WNYC: Unlocking the Past in Poland
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