Screen Times at Ridgemont High

Reporter Paul Tough and Host Ira Glass look at the biggest change in admissions this year: colleges no longer requiring the SATs.

Paul Tough turns to UT Austin to see what happens if you admit students with great grades, who didn’t perform well on the SAT, into your college.

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

Producer Bim Adewunmi travels to the site in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer.

A whole country gets obsessed with rescuing a missing girl.

We put out a call looking for people having to face something that freaked them out.