May 21 Analysis: Student loan debt and an astonishing number no one’s talking about By Paul Solman Do student loan defaults pose a systemic threat analogous to the subprime default wave that helped trigger the Crash of ‘08?… Continue reading
May 20 The 10 victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting By Michael D. Regan Eight students and two teachers are among the dead. Continue reading
May 18 Watch 6:47 Texas school shooting days before graduation draws governor’s call for new gun laws Students, parents and teachers suffered the agony of a school shooting on Friday morning near Galveston, Texas, where at least 10 people were murdered and 10 more wounded. The suspect, a 17-year-old according to media reports, is being held on… Continue watching
May 18 10 killed, 10 injured in Texas high school shooting By Joshua Barajas The Texas governor confirmed that 10 people were killed and another 10 injured following a shooting Friday morning at a high school about 30 miles southeast of Houston, Texas. Continue reading
May 17 Watch 8:02 Children who marched for equal rights inspire a new generation By Lisa Stark, Education Week Fifty-five years ago, thousands of African-American children walked out of their schools and began a peaceful march in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest segregation. They were met with attack dogs and water hoses. For a new generation of students, traveling to… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 3:40 Meet a teen farmer earning profits from pasture-raised pigs In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a hard-working 15-year-old turns a swine project into a profitable business. This story is part of our Student Reporting Lab series Making It Work. Continue watching
May 16 What happened when two scouts met up with the journalist walking around the world By Mark Schulte, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting We have crossed continents, global capitals, regional cities, and small villages in a series of inward leaps, zooming in finally on this tiniest of roads in northern India. It is an almost absurdly random spot in the world to meet… Continue reading
May 15 Watch 6:19 How faculty mentors can help first-generation students succeed By Hari Sreenivasan A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA to see how the program is… Continue watching
May 15 Watch 14:04 How students who struggle with mental illness can find help By Jeffrey Brown These three high-achieving students at one of the world's most prestigious universities have also suffered crippling depression and been through years of therapy and medication. In the second part of his report, Jeffrey Brown hears how they got help with… Continue watching
May 14 Watch 6:42 ‘Portraits of Resilience’ destigmatize depression at one of the world’s top universities By Jeffrey Brown Students at MIT are now part of a project to give a face and voice to a growing crisis across U.S. campuses. When a computer science professor noticed more and more students were coming to discuss their mental health issues,… Continue watching