PBS NewsHour: Education Archive | 2012

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	2012 MAY May 22, 2012 Delbanco Assesses Higher Education's Full Value Amid Questions Over Rising Costs Some people have argued that the traditional four-year college education might not be the right choice for some students. Andrew Delbanco has a new book on the topic. Jeffrey Brown spoke with him recently. Here's an extended version of their conversation.

	May 22, 2012 College: 'The Best Rehearsal Spaces We Have for Democracy' In "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be," Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco presents a biting defense of a traditional four-year college experience with a liberal arts education -- as opposed to a pre-professional training experience increasingly popular in a tough economy. Jeffrey Brown hosts the conversation.

	May 22, 2012 Pakistani Women Counter Country's Violence With Textbooks, TV Shows Pakistan is experiencing a surge in many types of violence, and some of the women working to counteract it place some of the blame on the country's schools.

	May 21, 2012 Helping High School Youth Learn by Doing Since 1994, YouthBuild has trained 110,000 high school dropouts around the country to put up houses for their community and think critically in the classroom while earning their GEDs or diplomas. As part of the American Graduate series, Paul Solman reports on a program designed to keep kids learning inside and outside of class.

	May 18, 2012 Chronic Absenteeism -- Not a 'Casual Decision' There's an assumption that in order to do well in school, you have to be in school. But new data suggests that 5 to 7.5 million students, especially from low-income areas, are missing more than one month of school a year.

	May 17, 2012 Florida Journalism Program Gives Students Reason to Stay in School Student Leon Tomlinson joined Journeys in Journalism in third grade and said that the program was one of the main reasons he now excels in the classroom.

	May 17, 2012 Young Journalists at Work Over the course of reporting a story on a communications magnet program in St. Petersburg, Fla., the NewsHour met many students going through the K-12 "Journeys in Journalism" program. View a slideshow of their work.

	May 16, 2012 What Does a First-Grade Journalist Look Like? On a cool April morning the first graders from Teresa Scott's class silently make their way into a multimedia classroom where they gather once a week to learn the ins and outs of journalism.

	May 14, 2012 Boosting Reading Skills: Will 'Common Core' Experiment Pay Off? Called the "Common Core," a new set of state guidelines spell out what young students are expected to learn and what books they're expected to read. Forty five states and the District of Colombia have already adopted the standards. Learning Matters' John Merrow reports on the design and the aim of the new guidelines.

	May 7, 2012 Ndegeocello Credits Arts Education With Redefining Path to Success With nine studio albums under her belt and a world tour under way, bass player Meshell Ndegeocello was in her hometown of Washington, D.

	May 2, 2012 Holocaust Survivor: Hatred, Tyranny Continue 'Every Single Day' After surviving the Holocaust, Gerda Weissmann Klein emigrated to the United States where she has championed the values of immigrants and citizenship. Klein speaks with Judy Woodruff about her horrifying years in Nazi captivity and how the experience has inspired her work.

	May 2, 2012 Ask Melinda Gates Your Question About Education Reform Next week, Melinda Gates will sit down with Hari Sreenivasan to talk about the Gates Foundation's work in the field of education, and we'd like to hear your suggestions.

	May 2, 2012 Join a Live Chat Thursday: How Do You Teach Climate Change in the Classroom? For the first time, national science standards will include guidelines on how to teach climate change -- but how will teachers incorporate the subject into the curriculum? Watch the broadcast segment on Wednesday's NewsHour and then join Hari Sreenivasan on Thursday at 5 p.m. ET for a live chat on the topic.

	May 1, 2012 Climate In The Classroom: Teachers Share Their Stories This week, the PBS NewsHour will report on one teacher's struggles to teach climate change in her Colorado classroom. We asked teachers and educators to share their experiences handling the subject in their schools.



	APRIL April 30, 2012 Inside a Madrassa in Pakistan The Jamia Binoria Madrassa in downtown Karachi is considered one of Pakistan's more moderate Islamic institutions. Within these whitewashed concrete walls, students receive a mixture of secular and religious education.

	April 27, 2012 How Are Student Loans Affecting Your Life? As student loans become a hot-button issue in this election season, we turn to you to better inform our coverage: How are student loans affecting your life? Are you still paying them off? What advice would you give graduating high school seniors who are about to take on college loans?

	April 25, 2012 An American Graduate in New Mexico As part of the American Graduate project, Ray Suarez visits a school in New Mexico, where he talks to teenagers about the value of education.

	April 24, 2012 Live Chat: Why Aren't There More Female Scientists and Engineers? This week on the NewsHour, we take a look at why more women aren't pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics , with reports beginning Wednesday online and on the broadcast.

	April 18, 2012 Teen Reporter Investigates Cyberbullying Bullying through online platforms - known as cyberbullying - has gained increased national attention recently. Seventeen-year-old Amy reported on the issue for her school newspaper and shares tips to keep her and her peers safe online.

	April 17, 2012 In Sin City, Out-of-Work Adults Double Down on Education The recession hit many Las Vegans very hard. That, in turn, has led to many of the unemployed or under-employed to re-evaluate their skills. Some have chosen to try to earn a GED. And that desire has led to a surge in enrollment in the Community Multicultural Center's GED program.

	April 13, 2012 As 'Bully' Opens, the Bullied, Bullies and Bystanders Weigh In Video editing by Thaisi Da SilvaA 12-year-old is harassed on the school bus, a 16-year-old lesbian is ostracized by her community and a young girl brings a gun to school to face her bullies.

	April 10, 2012 California Community Colleges Face Dilemmas Amid Tighter Budgets With 2.6 million students, California's community colleges make up the largest higher educational system in the country. Spencer Michels reports on the system's efforts to reshape its future as budget problems have forced the state to cut back support and tuition hikes have sparked student protests.

	April 10, 2012 Will Some Community Members Be Booted From Community Colleges? Is the mission of California's large community college system about to change on a fundamental level? Spencer Michels reports.

	April 6, 2012 Need to Know: Philadelphia's 'Project U-Turn' Aims to 'Recapture' Dropouts On Friday's "Need to Know," our public media colleagues tell the story of Justin Rudd, a high school dropout who lived on the streets of Philadelphia -- a city where roughly 40 percent of ninth-graders don't mange to graduate in four years.

	April 5, 2012 The Education Conversation In this week's Education Conversation, we take a a look at campus tragedies, increasing student loan debt, and more.



	MARCH March 26, 2012 On Stage, Chicago Students Tackle Immigration, Poverty, Race Students at the Albany Park Theatre Project in Chicago research, write and perform plays about their own communities, tackling tough issues like immigration, poverty and race while learning about theater in an area where extracurricular activities are few and far between. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	March 22, 2012 Learning Differences and the Arts Many students with learning disabilities lack confidence in some of the typical classroom activities but shine in the arts. At Henderson Inclusion Elementary School in Boston, a third of the students are disabled and the curriculum is filled with things like dancing, theater and visual arts.

	March 21, 2012 Engaging Students With Learning Differences Early On Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Betty Ann Bowser visited an elementary school that practices early intervention -- engaging students with technology and art to improve their chances of earning a diploma.

	March 21, 2012 6 Tips for Parents of Students With Learning Differences After being diagnosed with ADHD and multiple learning disabilities, Daniel Paris was able to move from high school dropout to Harvard graduate student. Read Paris' advice for parents of children with learning differences.

	March 21, 2012 From High School Dropout to Harvard University Graduate Student Frustrated by his struggles in school, Daniel Paris dropped out of high school during his sophomore year. But after being diagnosed with ADHD and other learning disabilities, Paris finished high school, graduated from the University of Southern California and is now a graduate student at Harvard University.

	March 20, 2012 Condoleezza Rice Makes the Case for Arts as Vital Part of Education On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections between education and national security. He also took some time to ask both leaders about the role of arts in education amid big budget cuts.

	March 20, 2012 Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge' A new Council on Foreign Relations report spelled out the need for more science, history and foreign languages in U.S. schools -- and linked education to national security interests. Jeffrey Brown discusses the report with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

	March 20, 2012 Condoleezza Rice Makes the Case for Arts as Vital Part of Education On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections between education and national security.

	March 19, 2012 Report: Graduation Rates Improve, but Hurdles Remain A new report reveals progress is being made in the effort to curb the dropout rate among U.S. high school students, but some states have been more effective at keeping students in school than others.

	March 16, 2012 Colorado Students Begin to Learn Financial Discipline A Colorado law that went into effect last year requires schools to teach public school students about financial responsibility -- from drawing coins and bills to deducting purchases from their classroom bank accounts. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports.

	March 14, 2012 Oakland Program Aims to Pique Girls' Interest in Science, Tech Careers As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, Calif., that shows hundreds of female students a path to pursuing careers in science and technology, while also trying to minimize the chances of them dropping out of school.

	March 14, 2012 In Different College Basketball Bracket, Study Finds Gap in Graduation Rate Ahead of Thursday's tipoff of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, a study has found anew that the gap in the graduation rate between white and black players remains wide.

	March 13, 2012 Driver's License Incentives Used in Some States to Keep Teens in School A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws vary, but the general premise is the same: If a student wants to stay on the road, he or she must stay in school. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

	March 13, 2012 Can Lure of Driver's License Keep Kids in School? 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 driver's license is being used as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school.

	March 6, 2012 Report: Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline Black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. Jeffrey Brown discusses the disparities with Christopher Edley Jr. of the University of California, Berkeley and the Fordham Institute's Chester Finn Jr.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 24, 2012 New York Arts Program Brings 'Harmony' to Low-Income Students Serving mostly low-income children in New York City, an innovative music education program called Harmony provides free instruments and daily music lessons to children in third through sixth grades. Correspondent John Merrow reports on an arts program changing lives in public schools, based on a system developed in Venezuela.

	Feb. 23, 2012 Online Public Schools Gain Popularity, but Quality Questions Persist Full-time public cyber schools are now an option in 30 states, allowing some 250,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade to press buttons to raise their hands and message their teachers. John Tulenko of Learning Matters Television reports from Pennsylvania where the demand for online charter schools is high.

	Feb. 22, 2012 'Why I Go to School': An Antidote For Dropping Out Every year, more than 1.3 million students drop out of high school. In our new project, we are asking students to choose an image that illustrates their motivations to stay in school. We'll "pin" them up on our Pinterest board "Why I Go to School."

	Feb. 17, 2012 40 Years After Gaye's Hit, John Legend Explores 'What's Going On...Now' Jeffrey Brown talks to singer-songwriter John Legend and producer Harry Weinger about Marvin Gaye's hit record, "What's Going On," on its 40th anniversary.

	Feb. 10, 2012 'OMG!' Exports American Slang to China Meet Jessica Beinecke, the writer, host and producer of "OMG! Meiyu," or "Oh My Gosh! American English." Each weekday the 25-year-old Voice of America journalist posts 2- to 3-minute videos explaining the hippest American English and culture to a Chinese audience; her Chinese fans, in turn, tell her what they'd like to learn.

	Feb. 10, 2012 Schools Look to Holistic Approach to Improve Attendance When it comes to lowering the high school dropout rate, many school leaders have found that something fairly basic works: the ABCs -- Attendance, Behavior and Class.

	Feb. 8, 2012 In California, Some Students Rethink Dropping Out Santa Barbara High School covers 40 acres in tree-lined hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a few miles away.

	Feb. 2, 2012 California Photographer Captures Young Faces of Juvenile Detention Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities throughout the nation. In his own words, Ross explains what he's seen. This report is part of NewsHour's American Graduate series on the U.S. dropout crisis.

	Feb. 2, 2012 Juvenile Education: Inside a Confined World Photographer and professor Richard Ross has spent the last five years documenting juvenile detention facilities throughout the nation. The NewsHour recently spoke with him in his studio at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

	Feb. 1, 2012 Gang Member-Turned-Ph.D. Mentors Youth on the Fringes Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Now, he's a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who tries to help adolescents avoid the same mistakes he made and get second chances like he did. Ray Suarez reports.

	Feb. 1, 2012 Join a Live Chat Friday at 1:30 p.m. ET on Dropouts and Delinquents This week, the NewsHour's American Graduate team looks at juvenile justice and gang violence relating to the dropout crisis. Join a live chat Friday at 1:30 p.m. ET with Victor Rios, a former gang member turned sociology professor, and Richard Ross, a photographer who documents what life is like for young people in prison.

	Feb. 1, 2012 One Man's Journey From Gang Member to Academia Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Today, he's a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies at-risk youth.



	JANUARY Jan. 27, 2012 Should Financial Aid Be Linked to a College's Affordability? President Obama announced Friday at the University of Michigan that he's putting colleges on notice that tuition hikes can't continue year after year. Ray Suarez discusses the proposals with Mark Yudof, president of the University of California, and Richard Vedder of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

	Jan. 20, 2012 The Education Conversation - South Carolina Edition In this week's Education Conversation, we look at how GOP candidates score on education and why South Carolina's graduation rates are so low.

	Jan. 20, 2012 Airman, Actors Seek to Inspire Youth with 'Red Tails' "Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. WE fight! We FIGHT!"

	Jan. 16, 2012 In Smaller Voices, 'I Have a Dream' Echoes Again Over National Mall For the past seven years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, children from a Washington, D.C., elementary school have climbed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to proclaim "I have a dream," just as Dr. King did 48 years ago. This year, they also shared what "the most historic speech ever" means to them.

	Jan. 6, 2012 New Study Gauges Teachers Impact on Students' Lifetime Earnings Replacing a bad teacher with an average or a good one has measurable economic benefits such as boosting a student's lifetime earnings by hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a new study done in part by Harvard University economist Raj Chetty. Ray Suarez and Chetty discuss the study's findings.

	Jan. 6, 2012 The Education Conversation We look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations.