March 28, 2013  |   Incidents of bullying in schools across the U.S. not only have an effect on students' emotional state, they can also have school wide ramifications. PBS NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Seattle to profile one program that works on curbing aggressive behavior early on, and uses babies to do it.

February 25, 2013  |   Graphic by Allison McCartney...

February 4, 2013  |   A version of this report on Achievement First charter schools will air on PBS NewsHour Monday. Determining exactly how and how often teachers should be evaluated on their job performance, a long-standing contentious issue, re-emerged front...

September 5, 2012  |   With the meteoric rise of super PACS and the repeal of some individual and corporate restrictions on presidential and congressional fundraising, outside money is pouring into this year's presidential campaign from every angle. The NewsHour followed...

August 31, 2012  |   For many Americans the conventions are a time to celebrate their political parties' past, present and future. They are usually well-attended by U.S. press, but members of the foreign media come out as well. A reported...

August 28, 2012  |   Despite a rain-soaked Monday that delayed and cancelled official events across the city of Tampa Bay, there were plenty of after-hour parties Monday at the Republican National Convention that went ahead seemingly without a hitch. The...

August 21, 2012  |   NewsHour photo by Mike Fritz Few things conjure up childhood nostalgia like summer vacation. Yet the long period away from school is often cited by education experts as a crucial factor in explaining why some students fall behind in...

May 17, 2012  |   On Wednesday's NewsHour we introduced you to De'Qonton Davis, an eighth grader from St. Petersburg, Fla. Davis and his classmates at John Hopkins Middle School examined how violence affects students' ability to learn. They produced a video...

April 17, 2012  |   Las Vegas welcome sign. Photo by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour Fist bumps and high-fives -- it's how principal David Wilson interacts with students as he walks down the halls of Chaparral High School in Las Vegas. The unconventional style is...

March 23, 2012  |   A major part of a politician's daily life has always been the ubiquitous photo-op, and besides kissing babies, nothing may be used more than animals to try to highlight the candidate's softer, more human side to the American public....

March 13, 2012  |   Updated 5:09 p.m. | For many teenagers, getting behind the wheel is a rite of passage. It's a step into adulthood that brings new freedoms and responsibilities. For a growing number of state legislatures, however, the...

March 3, 2012  |   BP says it has reached a $7.8 billion settlement with lawyers representing thousands of plaintiffs who were affected by the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The announcement came late Friday as a much anticipated trial in a...

October 20, 2011  |   Thursday's death of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi concluded a bloody nine-month uprising and set off wild celebrations across the North African nation that the erratic dictator ruled with an iron fist for more than four decades. From the early...

October 6, 2011  |   It's been 50 years since Ernest Hemingway was found next to his shotgun in Ketchum, Idaho. Yet the life and times of the iconic American author remains an open book for scholars and historians to meticulously...

September 11, 2011  |   On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, Jonathan Hyman was driving home from dropping his daughter off at school when he heard the news. The Bethel, N.Y.-based documentary photographer knew that the attacks would alter...

July 19, 2011  |   It's been more than five months since the Arab Spring first swept into Libya, shaking Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year grip on power and spawning a deadly civil war that has killed up to 15,000 people, according...

May 13, 2011  |   Jim Lehrer announced this week that he's stepping back from daily anchor and co-anchor duties on the PBS NewsHour - so we decided to take a look back at some highlights from his 52 years in journalism and his time...

April 20, 2011  |   Over the course of the last year, the NewsHour has been checking in with Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert, a New Orleans native who began covering the Gulf oil spill when BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sunk...

April 12, 2011  |   Click here to view the photo essay "The Civil War: Between the Battles." There is an old combat adage that states, "War is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror." It's a saying that exemplified the...

March 17, 2011  |   Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he's...

January 20, 2011  |   Wearing an elegant white evening gown, Jacqueline Kennedy smiles as she delicately makes her way through a Washington snowstorm. The men around her are expressionless as they help the future first lady get to a ball hosted by Frank...

January 6, 2011  |   Aung San Suu Kyi; photo by Platon for Time Over the last two decades, many of the world's famous and powerful have found themselves in front of Platon's camera. The renowned portrait photographer dropped his last name early in...

November 22, 2010  |   Reporting along the U.S. and Mexico border has become an increasingly dangerous task for journalists who live on both sides of the fence. According to Reporters Without Borders, an international NGO that advocates for press freedom, more journalists have...

November 12, 2010  |   This week marked the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's election as the nation's 35th president. At 43 years old, Kennedy became the youngest man to be elected to the office, and the nation's first and only Catholic president,...

August 2, 2010  |   PHOENIX | When Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, was signed into law in April, it was just a normal day for Arizona Republic photographer Nick Oza. He was out shooting other events for the newspaper when he got the...

July 28, 2010  |   NOGALES, Ariz. | To everyone here, the border represents something different: a barrier to a better life, a reminder of harder times, childhood, a separation of family, access to cheaper goods, a gateway for the drug trade, security from rampant...

June 30, 2010  |   As the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan continue, it remains to be seen what issues and moments will define the proceedings. On Tuesday, Kagan declined to comment on legal questions that "might some day come before the court"...

June 25, 2010  |   With the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan set to begin, the Rundown turned to the NewsHour's regular high court analyst, Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal, for some historical perspective on the confirmation process and what...

June 16, 2010  |   Since the Gulf oil spill disaster began in April, President Obama's rhetoric has evolved as the crisis has grown - and as the administration faced calls for a stronger federal response. Watch a highlight reel of key moments in the...

May 17, 2010  |   With violence erupting on the streets of Bangkok for a fifth straight day, Thailand's government appeared to move closer to an agreement on a ceasefire with Red Shirt protesters, according to the Associated Press. A reported offer was made...

April 30, 2010  |   Thirty-five years ago, White House photographer David Hume Kennerly knew he was on the verge of capturing a historic moment. President Gerald Ford had convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in the Roosevelt Room and was poised...

March 26, 2010  |   Even as Congress puts the finishing touches on a sweeping overhaul to the nation's health care system, another hurdle may be looming for President Obama's signature domestic issue: The Supreme Court. So far, 14 state attorneys general have filed a...

February 26, 2010  |   It's been a long year of contentious congressional negotiations, raucous town hall meetings and battle lines being drawn over President Obama's push for health care reform. You can be forgiven for occasionally getting lost along the bumpy political road that...