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Class of 2025 offers an in-depth exploration of some of the issues that students from Oregon face today, seen through the lens of the students themselves.
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Guest Episode: Transmission, from KNKX
Feb 27, 2021·16m - 2
What’s it like teaching middle school in 2021?
Hidden gemClass Of 2025 turns to Ron Russell Middle School in Portland, where Dave Miller of OPB's Think Out Loud talks with Jamie Robillard and Carly Halligan about teaching eighth graders during comprehensive distance learning.
Feb 8, 2021·23m·1 clip - 3
Guest Episode: RadioActive, from KUOW
Feb 2, 2021·17m - 4
Guest Episode: tbh
Hidden gemElizabeth Miller of Oregon Public Broadcasting hands Class of 2025 to TBH from KALW, where Chosong Tenzin and Hannah Nee frame a teen report on race, education, and punishment.
Jan 19, 2021·23m·2 clips - 5
Season 2, Epilogue: The Road to 2025 continues
Hidden gemJan 12, 2021·15m - 6
Season 2, Ep 6: Why some Black students may do better at home
Hidden gemDr. Valerie Adams-Bass explains why navigating unwelcoming school spaces can leave Black students mentally exhausted.
Jan 5, 2021·29m·2 clips - 7
Season 2, Ep 5.5: What’s it like running a middle school in 2020?
Dec 28, 2020·6m - 8
Season 2, Ep 5: Boys “Fall Apart” in middle school
Neuroscientist Lise Elliott rejects the idea of separate male and female brains while explaining differences in maturity and school performance.
Dec 21, 2020·25m·1 clip - 9
Season 2, Ep 4: Lessons from The Plague - new teachers in 2020
Hidden gemJosh says he could not find teachers “my kind” at a school where only three of 49 teachers were people of color.
Dec 14, 2020·21m·1 clip - 10
Season 2, Ep 3: The year that screen time was all the time
Dec 7, 2020·26m - 11
Season 2, Ep 2: When school and home collide -- COVID-19 continued
Middle school students share how the pandemic has affected their home life, school, and mental health.
Nov 30, 2020·22m - 12
Season 2, Ep 1: The Class of 2025 and COVID-19
Nov 30, 2020·26m - 13
Ep. 6: Calling School A 'Sanctuary'
This episode explores how fear of deportation affects immigrant students and whether schools can provide sanctuary.
Oct 9, 2017·22m - 14
Ep. 5: Is Your Brain A Muscle Or A Machine?
Oct 2, 2017·19m - 15
Ep. 4: 'I Already Learned This'
A long-term project tracking Oregon students from kindergarten to high school, examining obstacles to graduation, with a focus on talented and gifted students.
Sep 25, 2017·25m - 16
Ep. 3: 'I Felt I Just Wasn't As Smart As Everybody Else'
Sep 18, 2017·19m - 17
Ep. 2: I Don't Speak The Same Language As My Parents
Sep 11, 2017·21m - 18
Ep. 1: Who Cares About Math When You Don't Have A Home?
This episode explores the challenges faced by students experiencing homelessness and poverty, focusing on a boy named Ethan and how schools can help.
Sep 5, 2017·22m