When it comes to education, how do you teach all the things tests can’t measure? One Chicago middle school thinks it has the answer. There, life skills and character matter as much as geometry and algebra. The school is Chicago Jesuit Academy, and I spent a week there reporting in November. The story was edited […]

32:39 This episode of Inside Out originally aired in the fall of 2001. Anna Goldman explains why, as a child, the way to her heart was through her stomach. Jess Jones visits Geno’s Steaks in her beloved home town of Philadelphia to figure out what makes a genuine Philly cheese steak beat out all the […]

26:59 This episode of Inside Out originally aired in the fall of 2001. In this episode about our national pastime: Louisa Lombard interviews her cousin, a top prospect for the Atlanta Braves, about the chutes and ladders of the minor leagues. Rachel Katzman investigates the Slaterettes – the country’s only all-girl little league. Samm Tyroller-Cooper […]

30:56 This episode of Inside Out originally aired in the spring of 2001. In this episode of Inside Out exploring the very human fascination with death, Anna Goldman and I reported on a laboratory promising to revive you after death, by freezing you in life. (We were so on the cryonics story before the whole […]

36:46 This episode of Inside Out originally aired in the fall of 2000. As Providence prepared for its second Johnny Rockets, Inside Out contemplated what makes us revisit the past with such a Vaseline coated lens. Featuring an interview with nine time World Yo-yo champ Larry Sayco; hiring a ghost writer to write your autobiography; […]

28:36 This episode of Inside Out originally aired in the spring of 2001. The Met is a charter school in Providence that made its mark with an unconventional approach to education: no teachers, no classes, no grades. Only internships, mentors and “real world” experiences outside the classroom. In 2000, Inside Out devoted an entire episode […]