This American School Goes Bad (School Life):

There's nothing more exasperating and humbling than the fact that Ira Glass (of NPR’s “This American Life”) was once an education reporter and occasionally returns to his old beat. Tonight's show has Glass profiling a Chicago teacher whose school (Washington Irving Elementary) has gone from good to bad over the past decade since Glass first reported on the school. Two Steps Back (This American Life). See below for more School Life.