Devin Katayama
Devin Katayama is an award-winning journalist who hosts the midday for WFPL Louisville Public Media. He's also the station's education reporter.
Devin earned his M.A. in Journalism from Columbia College Chicago where he was a Follet Fellow. While in Chicago, he won the Studs Terkel Community Media Workshop Scholarship award for his stories on street youth.
Devin previously worked with WBEZ Chicago Public Media’s Worldview program and with Northern California KQED’s The California Report. He earned his B.A. in English Creative Writing at CUNY Hunter College in New York City.
For more of his work, check out audiocollected.org.
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Kentucky education officials' consideration of Next Generation Science Standards gained national attention last month when The Huffington Post and others
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The chair of the Kentucky Board of Education doesn’t expect the controversy over newly-adopted science standards to lead to a change in those standards
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Kentucky’s Centre College has received its largest endowment ever and one of the largest gifts to a liberal arts college in the nation. The $250 million
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Just two weeks since Kentucky allowed school districts to voluntarily adopt the new compulsory dropout age of 18, enough districts have approved the policy
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In four years, Kentucky students won't be able to drop out of school until they're 18. It appears that enough Kentucky school districts have, or plan to
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The Kentucky Department of Education has released results of the voluntary anonymous teacher survey—known as the TELL Survey—which was conducted this
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Stephen Johnstone started celebrating with the winning families and jockeys — uninvited — in 1963. In the 18 times he's sneaked into the festivities, he's never been caught. Once you're past the gate, he says, your job is to share the joy of the moment.
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Kentucky has become the most recent state to see problems with the company that administers online exams in public schools and officials say the problem…
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Kentucky has become the most recent state to see problems with the company that administers online exams in public schools and officials say the problem
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This year's 51st annual Great Steamboat Race--part of the Kentucky Derby Festival--will continue using a points system developed in previous years to…