Nation Sep 06 What's the grade for extra reading time in low-performing Florida schools? Florida requires 300 low-performing elementary schools to add an hour of focused reading to their school day. Four years into the initiative, how effective has it been? Alison Stewart checks in for this update to a report that aired last…
Episode Sep 05 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode September 5, 2015 On this edition for Saturday, Sept. 5, thousands of migrants are on the move in Europe, as the European Union debates what to do next. Later, how the sordid business of smuggling people across borders has become a growth industry.
World Sep 05 How are different countries reacting to the migrant crisis? This week, a Syrian refugee, now in Sweden, spoke to NewsHour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant about his journey across the Mediterranean sea and leaving his family behind. Brabant, who is covering the surge of migrants into Northern Europe, joins Alison…
World Sep 05 Behind the dangerous trade of migrant smuggling A truck with 71 dead migrants found along an Austrian highway last week called attention to the dangers of smuggling. Washington Post reporter Michael Birnbaum has investigated the migrant smuggling trade and joins Alison Stewart via Skype from Brussels with…
Economy Sep 04 Is the economy strong enough for an interest rate raise? Though unemployment fell to its best place since early 2008, the number of jobs created in August was quite modest, falling below expectations. Combined with the volatility of the market and worries over sluggish wage growth, how will the Federal…
Science Sep 04 Why humanity is essential to the future of artificial intelligence As we advance toward increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence, John Markoff, author of “Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots,” joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss our anxiety about autonomous technology and the human…
World Sep 04 Why Guatemalans rose up against government corruption On Thursday, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina was forced to resign. By the afternoon, he was in court, accused of taking part in a multi-million dollar bribery operation, and then he spent the night in jail. Judy Woodruff takes a…
World Sep 04 As Sweden offers shelter, Denmark tries to discourage refugees Two Scandinavian neighbors, Sweden and Denmark, are handling the European migrant crisis in vastly different ways. While Sweden has taken in the largest number of refugees in relation to its population of all EU nations, Denmark is implementing policies to…
World Sep 04 News Wrap: Desperate migrants start to march toward Germany In our news wrap Friday, thousands of refugees and migrants who had been trapped at a railway station in Budapest set out by foot to reach Germany, hundreds of miles away. Also, 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates and…