Author: Jordan Owens

Once again this year, fourth grade teachers around the county turned their classrooms into recording studios, and their students submitted outstanding stories, interviews and commentaries for NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. Listening to these entries, our judges found much to celebrate: from detailed reporting on how math instruction is changing, to the challenge of withdrawing from technology, to a charming – and balanced – discussion of the question: Who has it better, kids or grownups? This the second year we’ve opened the competition to fourth graders, at the request of teachers around the country. (The Student Podcast Challenge, now in its…