Alex Baumhardt
Associate Producer
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
School on the move
A little-known program has been helping the children of migrant farmworkers graduate for more than 50 years.
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.
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.