The Talking Cure

Jonathan Goldstein talks to Sven Berger, a juror still hung up over an assignment he served ten years ago.

A group of kids is told that “education is the door to their futures.” But these kids are in jail, facing adult sentences.

Samantha Broun interviews her mom about surviving a brutal attack by Reginald McFadden 20 years ago, and sets out to interview friends, family and policymakers about how that attack changed Pennsylvania law regarding life sentences at the time.

Producer Chana Joffe-Walt talks to a seventh grader who doesn’t have a seventh grade, or an eighth grade. (11 minutes)

As the school year moved forward, the fundraising committee planned a gala at the French Embassy.

In just one year, everything in one ordinary public middle school changed.