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With all ten games of the 2015 season behind them, there's just one question left for the Columbia Lions: Was this year a turnaround? → Read More
The Columbia University Marching Band is loud, irreverent, and not all that great at music. They're also the only students in the stands for every single football game the Lions play. → Read More
The Lions are quick to tell you that they don't believe in "moral victories." In football you either win or lose, with no gray area in between. But it's not so simple in real life. → Read More
Everybody knows football is a tough, violent sport. The game has gotten safer, but it still poses big, long-term risks for the young men who play it. → Read More
The Columbia Lions need "mental toughness" if they're going to turn their record around. But what does that even mean? → Read More
Everything's been building to this: Al Bagnoli's new team, the Columbia Lions, face Al Bagnoli's old team, the University of Pennsylvania Quakers. → Read More
Everything's been building to this: Al Bagnoli's new team, the Columbia Lions, face Al Bagnoli's old team, the University of Pennsylvania Quakers. → Read More
We won’t be coy about this — Columbia football won last Saturday, snapping a 24-game losing streak. It’s not surprising some champagne was sprayed afterwards. → Read More
Pretty much everyone at Columbia knows their football team's dismal record, but few are actually rooting for a win. The Lions need some fans. → Read More
The Columbia Lions played hard, but fell to Fordham in their season opener. And that brought them to a milestone in Columbia history: with 22 losses, they're halfway to "The Streak." → Read More
In the first episode of The Season, meet the new head coach for the Columbia Lions football team. His mission? Turn around a team that hasn't won a game in two years. → Read More
It's been two years since the Columbia University Lions football team won a game. ‘The Season,' a new podcast from WNYC, will follow the team in its quest to make comeback. → Read More
Yani Lopez, of Harlem, wanted her daughter Kiami to go to a good kindergarten—one with art classes, foreign languages, and a diverse student body. Instead, Kiami was assigned last year to a neighborhood school with limited resources, no art classes, and a student body that was almost exclusively black and... → Read More
A look at grassroots efforts to counter segregation in the New York City schools. → Read More
Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Welcome to the latest installment of Ask a Teacher, Slate’s education podcast with the Teacher Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this episode, host Matt Collette asks three working teachers to answer questions submitted by listeners, including “How do teachers... → Read More
Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Welcome to the latest installment of Ask a Teacher, Slate’s education podcast with the Theater Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this episode, host Matt Collette asks three working teachers to answer questions submitted by listeners, including, “Why do some... → Read More
Listen to Episode 2 of Ask a Teacher: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Welcome to the latest installment of Ask a Teacher, Slate’s education podcast with the Theater Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this episode, host Matt Collette asks three working teachers to... → Read More
Listen to Episode 1 of Ask a Teacher: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Welcome to Ask a Teacher, Slate’s new education podcast presented with the Teacher Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this week’s episode, host Matt Collette asks three teachers questions submitted by Slate readers, including, “What... → Read More
When Shane was in elementary school, he could go months without advancing a reading level. And even though his mom, Carrie Shepherd, considered herself an involved parent, she sometimes wouldn’t know that her son, who has dyslexia, had stalled until she saw Shane’s latest report card. “You wonder, ‘What could... → Read More
All of us remember middle school, and very few of us would like to go back. That’s the case for middle school teachers, too. They’ve got some of the hardest jobs in education: working with students who want responsibility but aren’t always equipped to handle it. Turnover at this level is... → Read More