World Apr 10 Gordon Brown plans to send 400,000 Syrian refugee children back to school PBS NewsHour Co-Anchor Judy Woodruff and Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown discuss an effort to educate Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon.
Education Apr 08 American Graduate lesson from St. Louis: the power of public-private partnerships When educators, parents and other community members joined in St. Louis’s Nine Network of Public Media town hall on improving the city’s schools, they talked about how to help more students graduate from high school with the skills they’ll need…
Education Apr 03 College-bound students face financial aid maze College-bound students are learning which schools will offer them admission; now they just have to figure out which schools they can afford. Hari Sreenivasan takes a look at the maze of college financial aid and what students and parents need…
Education Apr 01 Mixed messages on whether U.S. students will be well-prepared for the workforce Two reports out Tuesday offer some perspective on whether American students will be well prepared for the working world when they get there. According to the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, American students performed just above average on…
Education Mar 27 New York state singled out for most segregated schools Public schools in New York state are the most segregated in the nation, according to a report out this week from UCLA’s Civil Rights Project. The overall rate of segregation was heavily weighted by New York City schools, which the…
Education Mar 25 In an about-face, Indiana decides to drop Common Core Indiana has become the first state to drop the Common Core standards for teaching math and English in public schools.