Three local news channels in St. Petersburg, Fla. recently reported on the video that John Hopkins Middle School students made for Student Reporting Labs about chronic fighting at their school. ABC Channel 11, CBS Channel 10 and FOX 13 all visited instructor Luanne Dietz's classroom and interviewed students about producing the video.[This video is no longer available.] Read More
The Macomb Daily, a newspaper serving Macomb County, Michigan, recently visited a Reporting Labs classroom at Fraser High School and created a video and article about the students. Read More
An in-depth article in the Tampa Bay Times looks at the students behind John Hopkins' Middle School's video, "Fighting Chance? Students Investigate Middle School Violence." Read More
Fraser High School's video "Dropping Out Impacts Michigan's Future" recently appeared in the Huffington Post's high school section. Read More
Students from Shenandoah, Iowa are busy making a video report about the Iowa Caucuses for Student Reporting Labs. Recently, they attended the famed first event in the presidential primaries and blogged about the experience at reportinglabs.tumblr.com. Read More
Student reporters at Granby High School, one of the 2011-2012 Student Reporting Labs sites, featured the program in an edition of their school newspaper, The Spectator. [Links are no longer available.] Read More
The Student Reporting Labs program is featured in the October 2011 issue of School Video News, a publication for broadcast journalism educators. Read More
The NewsHour's Gwen Ifill recently interviewed actor Denzel Washington about his work with at-risk youth. This piece is part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's American Graduate project, of which Student Reporting Labs is a part. Read More
Almost 18,000 educators and exhibitors attended the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference and exhibition at the Pennsylvania Convention Center June 26-29. Among the participants were 1,152 presenters and 940 international attendees from 63 countries. During Monday’s Student Reporting Labspresentation and panel discussion, teachers and educators watched the students’ work and asked questions about the process and the benefits of using journalism as a form of interactive learning. Read More
“Checking In On Dropping Out” is a collaborative project by PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs and People Production House’s Radio Rootz program. Many of the Radio Rootz journalists come from so-called “dropout factories” where only 60 percent of students finish in four years. Their reporting investigates why… Read More