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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Elgin High School students have been running experiments and conservation efforts on a creek behind their school for decades. Now, they need some extra help. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has the story… -
La Junta de Educación del Estado de Illinois anunció el desarrollo de una iniciativa estatal de aritmética para mejorar el rendimiento en matemáticas. Peter Medlin tiene más información... -
La administración Trump cerró recientemente la Oficina Regional de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Educación de EE. UU. en Chicago. Peter Medlin ofrece más información sobre las implicaciones para los estudiantes y las quejas relacionadas con los derechos civiles. -
On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, a music teacher with the Rockford Symphony Youth Orchestra tells us how students have fun while playing really high-level music. -
The Trump administration recently closed the U.S. Department of Education’s regional Office for Civil Rights in Chicago. Peter Medlin has more on what it means for students and civil rights complaints.
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La administración Trump restableció las visas de miles de estudiantes internacionales, cuyo estatus legal les habían revocado previamente -
The Trump administration has reinstated the visas of thousands of international students, whose legal status they’d previously revoked.
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The Illinois State Board of Education announced it’s developing a statewide “numeracy” initiative aimed at improving math performance. Peter Medlin has more…
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Los legisladores de Illinois están considerando una legislación que permitiría a los colegios comunitarios ofrecer licenciaturas en programas específicos con alta demanda. Peter Medlin, de WNIJ, conversó con estudiantes de colegios comunitarios rurales, quienes afirman que se beneficiarían enormemente si se aprueba. -
Illinois used federal COVID funding for a high-impact tutoring program. That funding expired in the fall. Many schools say tutoring made a big difference, but can they keep it going without that federal money? WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports…
