Getting Rejected From Your Dream College Isn’t the End of the World
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An editorial in the Wall Street Journal by high school senior Suzy Lee Weiss entitled “To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me” accuses colleges of…read more
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Chikumbuso Project Brings Opportunities to Students
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What is it like going to school in southern Africa? Zambia, a country the size of Texas, in southern Africa is home to Victoria Falls,…read more
Death of Buckwild Star “Wake-Up Call” to West Virginia Students
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Students at the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs site at Richwood High School in West Virginia recently reported on how the MTV reality show “Buckwild”…read more
Exploring Race Relations 40 Years After “Remember the Titans”
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T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., is best known as the school featured in “Remember the Titans”, a 2000 film that followed the true…read more
Students From Around the US Debate Gun Control
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In the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., as well as several other mass shootings in recent memory, the…read more
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Women’s History Month Resources
March is Women’s History Month, where we highlight and celebrate the accomplishments of women who…
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Scientists fish for data in the waters around Fukushima
In March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the island nation of Japan, causing a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three years later, experts are trying to assess how recovery efforts in the nuclear-affected area are progressing. Continue reading
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“Well-behaved women seldom make history”
By Katie Gould, PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer and Elizabeth Jones, PBS NewsHour Production…
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U.N. struggles to aid those trapped by Syria’s civil war
The State Department released its annual human rights report last week and concluded that last summer’s chemical weapons attack in Syria, which killed more than 1,400 people, was the worst human rights violation of 2013. Continue reading
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Seven Deadly Sins Art Scavenger Hunt
By Katie Gould, PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer Introduction Each year the festival of…
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