2003
DECEMBER
December 29, 2003
School for Success
Ray Suarez asks students at the new Maya Angelou School in Washington D.C. why that charter school has succeeded in sending seven out of ten graduates to college, in an underprivileged neighborhood where traditional schools have failed.

NOVEMBER
November 13, 2003
Report Card
A new national education report card gives strong marks for the improvement American students have made in math scores during the past seven years. Margaret Warner follows up on the findings with Education Week senior editor Lynn Olson.

November 12, 2003
Achievement Gap
John Merrow reports on the learning achievement gap and how one New York City public school is trying to eradicate it.

OCTOBER
October 10, 2003
Tuition Hikes
State budget crises have arrived on campus and hit cash-strapped college students in the wallet. Many public universities have countered reduced appropriations with increases in tuition. Kwame Holman explains the impact of these increases at college campuses in Virginia.

SEPTEMBER
September 2, 2003
School Battle
John Merrow reports from Maine where some educators and legislators oppose the No Child Left Behind Act.

JULY
July 25, 2003
Head Start
The House of Representatives approved Head Start for another five years but shifted some of the program's control to the states. Margaret Warner discusses the bill with Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the committee.

JUNE
June 26, 2003
Update: School Experiment
Betty Ann Bowser reports on the results of a major school reform effort in Philadelphia.

June 11, 2003
Report Card: WASL
Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting looks at standardized testing in the Washington State school system.

June 6, 2003
Report Card: The Job Market
Continuing a series on education, Paul Solman of WGBH Boston looks at how the recent college graduates are fairing in the job market.

June 4, 2003
Report Card: Women in College
In the third report in a series on education, Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television looks at why more women are attending college than men.

June 3, 2003
Report Card: FCAT
In the second report in a series on education, Tom Bearden looks at the standardized tests required for high school graduation in Florida.

June 2, 2003
Report Card: Reading First
In the first of a series of reports on education, John Merrow looks at Reading First, a cornerstone of the Bush administration's major education initiative, No Child Left Behind.

MAY
May 19, 2003
Separate Classrooms
Special correspondent for education John Merrow reports on a public school's experiment with single sex education.

APRIL
April 22, 2003
Safety Lesson
Betty Ann Bowser reports on school security in the age of terrorist attacks.

MARCH
March 27, 2003
On the Homefront
Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports on how the schools in Sacramento, California, are coping with lessons about the Iraq war.

FEBRUARY
February 19, 2003
Tuition Tug of War
Tom Bearden reports on the looming fight over undocumented students and college tuition.

JANUARY
January 15, 2003
Race and Admissions
Ray Suarez discusses the White House's decision to oppose the university's admissions policy with Terrence Pell, president of the center for individual rights; Walter Allen, associate professor of sociology at UCLA; Christopher Edley, former White House review leader of affirmative action programs; and Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University.

January 9, 2003
Teachers Without Tenure
Spencer Michels reports on the increasing number of college teachers who are part-time and untenured.