Dan Carsen

Education Reporter

WBHM

Dan Carsen is the education reporter at WBHM in Birmingham. He’s been a teacher, a teacher trainer, a newspaper reporter, a radio commentator, and an editor at an educational publishing house. His writing and reporting have won numerous regional and national awards. His outside interests include basketball, kayaking, sailing, mountain biking, percussion, and hoping his children let him sleep.

Armenian sisters Arev, left, and Lida stand in front of their home built from a shipping container.

Armenian families are still living in containers dating to a 1988 quake

We visited a town in the former Soviet country to see what life is like in the “domik” container villages — almost 30 years after they moved in.

Armenian families are still living in containers dating to a 1988 quake
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Bilingual education: The cost of doing nothing

Bilingual education: The cost of doing nothing
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Bilingual education in the South: Confronting the challenges

Bilingual education in the South: Confronting the challenges
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Bilingual education in the South: When teachers and students connect across cultures

Bilingual education in the South: When teachers and students connect across cultures
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Bilingual education in the South: It is happening, even here

Bilingual education in the South: It is happening, even here