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 […]
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…
This American Life: Fake I.D.
Host Ira Glass talks with Erin Einhorn, a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, who went to Poland to find the Catholic family that had sheltered and saved her mother from the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She found that in Krakow where she was living, in a country where Jewish populations had been […]
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