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Student loan borrowers will get an interest rate cut if they sign up for auto pay: Auto pay has long offered a modest discount off borrowers' interest rate — .25 percentage points — but after millions of borrowers opted out during the long COVID repayment pause, with some making no payments for years, the nation's student debt portfolio swelled to $1.7 trillion, NPR’s Cory Turner reports. The Education Department said it will temporarily increase its auto pay interest rate discount to one full percentage point starting July 1, for two years, for borrowers that enroll in auto pay or already use it.
High schools holds their first graduation ceremony in Tijuana: The ceremony arranged by the Sweetwater Union High School district, which is close to California’s border with Mexico, was designed to allow students to celebrate with family members who can’t cross the border, Katie Anastas reports for NPR member station KPBS. “It really allows us to turn the narrative of the border into something positive,” said Superintendent Moisés Aguirre. “It's a place of coming together, not a place of conflict.”
Socioeconomic factors are becoming 'biologically embedded' in children's brains: The most powerful factors affecting a child's brain development involve socioeconomic opportunities, according to a study in the journal Science, NPR Science Desk correspondent Jon Hamilton reports. The analysis of more than 2,300 9- and 10-year-olds found that environmental factors ranging from household income to education to neighborhood quality are associated with brain differences that can clearly be seen in MRI scans.
Is it OK to track your 18-25-year-old kid? Most parents do: As technology becomes ever more present, the boundaries between independence and reliance in late adolescence and early adulthood continue to evolve and shift. Researchers say tracking can be both a way to stay in touch that is healthy and supportive, but it may also cross the line to surveillance or too much interference, NPR’s Allison Aubrey reports.
For author Jane Yolen, no word was too big for a children's book: The late author — of more than 450 books — didn't shy away from stretching children's vocabularies. In a 2010 story on NPR's Weekend Edition, Yolen recalled a time when she refused an editor's request to swap the word "lavalier" for a more kid-friendly synonym in her 1987 book Piggins, NPR’s Chloee Weiner reports. "The editor first said, I think we can better just say necklace, I think lavalier's too big a word for kids this age," Yolen said. "But we held the fort. We said yes, absolutely, it's going to be lavalier." Later, when Yolen and illustrator Jane Dyer went on a book tour, she said at every school they visited, kids voted that "lavalier” was their favorite new word.
UK will ban kids under 16 from using social media apps: The ban takes effect next year for children under 16. NPR’s A Martinez spoke to University of Cambridge professor Amy Orben, who studies how social media affects children and sat on an expert panel that advised the U.K. government on children's online well-being. Speaking of news about kids and tech from across the pond, note that Sweden is set to ban cellphones at school.
Survey confirms the struggle of working parents: 'No way to be two things at once': A new Pew survey finds many working parents feel they cannot give 100% at either work or home. Benefits like paid sick leave and more affordable childcare could help. NPR’s Andrea Hsu spent time with one family feeling the strain.
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From contest winner to career … |
An exciting update from the Student Podcast Challenge team: Our 2025 College Student Podcast champion Jo Strogatz recently started a new job as an assistant producer at Radiolab from WNYC Studios in New York City.
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Jo with the Radiolab team at the Tribeca Festival in New York City.
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Just one year ago, the NPR Ed team met Jo through her winning entry Just Friends, where she explores what it means to find yourself and find happiness as a single young person out of college. NPR Ed’s Jonaki Mehta and Janet Woojeong Lee got to meet her in Portland, Me., where Jo walked us through her creative process — how she wove in original music to capture various feelings of love and loneliness.
“Radiolab was literally the show that inspired me to pursue audio, so it feels incredibly full circle. They told me part of the reason they hired me was because of my NPR winning piece. So grateful,” Jo says.
Congratulations, Jo! If you are a contest-alum or a teacher who wants to share how the Student Podcast Challenge affected your class and students, please send us a note to: studentpodcastchallenge@npr.org. We’d love to hear from you! 😊
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