Peter Medlin
Education ReporterPeter is an award-winning education reporter who has been at WNIJ since 2018. He’s also the host of Teachers’ Lounge: a listener-driven podcast & radio show telling the story of education through conversations with teachers and students. He grew up in Sandwich, Illinois, and graduated from North Central College. When he’s not writing & reporting, Peter loves to run at forest preserves across northern Illinois, cook, & hang out with his cat.
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Federally-funded “TRIO” programs provide services to disadvantaged students from middle school to college. This year, the Trump administration cut several TRIO grants in Illinois. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has more on how students use the program and what they could lose. -
Federally-funded “TRIO” programs provide services to disadvantaged students from middle school to college. This year, the Trump administration cut several TRIO grants in Illinois. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has more on how students use the program and what they could lose.
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Ha sido un año estresante para muchos estudiantes internacionales. La administración Trump está cancelando visas, reescribiendo normas y monitoreando las redes sociales de los estudiantes. Peter Medlin de WNIJ se sentó a conversar con un estudiante nigeriano de Northern Illinois University sobre su experiencia viviendo con una visa. -
On a new Teachers' Lounge, Bob Chikos! He’s a special education teacher at Crystal Lake Central High School.He's involved in education policy at the state level, working on reports about the teacher pipeline and school psychologist shortages.Bob also recently took a fascinating trip around Illinois -
Un banco de alimentos de Aurora ya está experimentando un aumento en la demanda a medida que se vencieron los beneficios del programa SNAP el 1 de noviembre. Informa Peter Medlin… -
Illinois publicó nuevos datos educativos el jueves pasado. Peter Medlin informa sobre el desempeño de las Escuelas Públicas de Rockford… -
Un programa llamado "National Math Stars" busca identificar y apoyar a las mentes jóvenes más brillantes del país en matemáticas. Este año escolar dio la bienvenida a su primer grupo de "math stars" de Illinois. Peter Medlin tiene el informe. -
It’s been a stressful year for many international students. The Trump administration is canceling visas, re-writing rules, & monitoring students’ social media. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin sat down with a Northern Illinois University student from Nigeria to talk about life on a visa.
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On a new show, we talk with our classroom correspondent about immigration anxiety in English as a Second Language classrooms, catch up with students from Kaneland High School’s student-run news magazine, and bring you even more education stories and conversations. -
We're revisiting our 2022 chat with Princeton middle school social studies teacher David Gray.He and his students worked on a project called “The Four Freedoms & Beyond," based on President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union speech just before the U.S. entered World War II.
