IRE Radio Podcast | Scrutinizing your schools

This week we bring you an education-themed podcast in two acts. First we’ll talk about campus coverage, specifically investigations into Title IX and sexual assault. In Act II we’ll turn to K-12 education with a piece on school segregation. Here’s the lineup:

• Paula Lavigne and Nicole Noren of ESPN talk about their investigation into Title IX complaints on college campuses.
• Nikole Hannah-Jones of ProPublica discusses the state of school segregation 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

You can find and download previous podcast episodes on iTunes or our Soundcloud page.

EPISODE NOTES

Looking for links to the stories, resources and events we discussed on this week’s podcast? We’ve collected them for you.

• Read Paula Lavigne and Nicole Noren’s Title IX investigation on ESPN’s website.
• Read the “Outside the Lines” investigation on the alleged assault of University of Missouri student Sasha Menu Courey.
• Listen to the full-length interview (30 minutes) with Paula Lavigne and Nicole Noren on Soundcloud.
• Members only: Listen to “Campus coverage: College sports” from the 2014 IRE Conference. Panelists include Paula Lavigne, Jodi Upton, Brad Wolverton and Jill Riepenhoff.
• Read “Segregation Now” on the ProPublica website. Nikole Hannah-Jones’ story was also published in The Atlantic.
• Use a tool from ProPublica to look up your local school district. You can use the database to find out if your school is or ever was under a desegregation order.
• Members only: Download Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tipsheet on covering school segregation. 
• Members only: Listen to “On the beat: Education” from the 2014 IRE Conference. Panelists include Jeremy Adam Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Susan Ferriss, and Terri Langford.
• Purchase the Department of Education’s Campus Crime data from the NICAR Data Library. You can learn more about the data here. 
• Learn about changes to the NICAR Data Library, including lower prices and free databases for members.
• Sign up for fall Watchdog Workshops in Portland, Buffalo and Jacksonville. 
• Members only: Browse and download 180 tipsheets on education.
• Go behind the story with Kent State University’s Computer-Assisted Reporting class. Learn how they tracked student athletes missing class. 
• Members only: Watch our webinars on investigating campus assault and college sports.