Education Mar 05 College Board announces SAT overhaul to address inequality, boost relevance The College Board announced a partial overhaul of the SAT, slated to take effect in the spring of 2016, which will eliminate the mandatory essay, revert to a top score of 1600 and create new fee waivers for lower-income students,…
Episode Mar 05 Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Tonight on the program, we examine the diplomatic situation concerning Ukraine as talks made little headway Wednesday. Also: College Board changes the SATs, fishing for data in the radioactive waters off Fukushima, protesters demand the release of Al-Jazeera journalists in…
World Mar 05 News Wrap: Diplomats make little headway on Ukraine outcome in Paris meeting In our news wrap Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian and European counterparts to discuss peace in Ukraine. Meanwhile, pro-Russian activists re-claimed a government building in Eastern Ukraine and a UN special envoy abandoned his mission in…
Episode Mar 04 Tuesday March 4, 2014 On our program Tuesday, a war of words amps up on the crisis in the Crimea region of Ukraine between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State John Kerry and others. Also, President Obama’s budget plan takes aim at economic…
World Mar 04 Reviewing U.S. options for responding to Russia's intervention in Ukraine Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner offers background on possible diplomatic steps for the U.S. on the Crimea crisis, then Judy Woodruff talks to John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Amy Knight, author of "How the Cold War Began,"…
Education Mar 04 'Hidden Genius' helps disadvantaged teens learn code of the tech industry In Oakland, not far from Silicon Valley, a small group of teenagers are glued to their computer screens, learning a new language. The Hidden Genius Project is a small non-profit that’s working to teach computer coding to young African-American men…
Health Mar 04 New study links pre-existing risks to rise in Army suicides Roughly 18 out of every 100,000 Army soldiers commit suicide every year, while many more attempt or consider killing themselves. A new study on the rise in suicides found that 1 in 10 soldiers could be diagnosed for an anger…
Politics Mar 04 Does the president's budget present solutions for closing the economic gap? President Obama’s 2015 budget proposal includes new spending for preschool, job training and public works and would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-wage workers. Judy Woodruff talks to Robert Greenstein from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities…
World Mar 04 News Wrap: Netanyahu says sanctions on Iran should be increased In our news wrap Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the U.S. and the world to not allow Iran to proceed with any part of its nuclear program in remarks during a visit to Washington. Also, the court martial…