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Daily Video November 05 2015

Do conservative wins in Tuesday’s election predict 2016?
Despite so much national focus on the next year’s presidential election, voters across the country decided a number of races and ballot measures in their own cities and states on Tuesday.
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Daily Video November 02 2015

San Diego turns Pacific Ocean into safe drinking water
Despite criticism from environmental groups, San Diego County will open the largest seawater desalination plant in the western hemisphere this year in an attempt to combat California’s four-year drought.
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Daily Video October 29 2015

Energy boom spurs more diversity in rural American West
In the Western U.S., the energy boom has increased the diversity of some of the country’s historically whitest states.
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Daily Video October 26 2015

President Obama says schools should test less
The president and the U.S. Department of Education have called on states to cut back on the number of standardized tests students take.
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Daily Video October 22 2015

Vice President Biden decides not to run for president in 2016
Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not run for the presidency in the 2016 election.
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Daily Video October 21 2015

Fight over high-stakes testing in schools continues
Public debate over the merits of standardized testing is nothing new, but the number of students choosing to opt out of the tests grew over the past year.
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Daily Video October 15 2015

Ancient sequoia trees suffering in California drought
California’s four-year drought has killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and has scientists worrying about the region’s giant sequoias.
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Daily Video October 13 2015

What happens when schools suspend young students?
More than three million students are suspended from public schools in the U.S. each year, including some students as young as kindergarten.
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Student Voices October 09 2015

Poetry is the key to positivity for National Student Poet
  (Anita Wright/NewsHour Extra) By Anita Wright and Adelyn Baxter One of th…
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Post October 08 2015

First Lady honors National Student Poets — Class Discussion
  (Anita Wright/NewsHour Extra) Have your students read the following articl…
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