Sep 06 Watch 6:52 Counting the benefits of teaching math to 3-year-olds By PBS News Hour In Boston public schools, 3, 4 and 5-year-olds are getting their first introduction to math. Before they walk through the kindergarten door, the “Building Blocks” curriculum is designed to encourage very young children to think and talk about math concepts… Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch 6:57 Georgetown University tries to make amends for profiting from slavery By PBS News Hour Georgetown University is taking an unprecedented step to respond to and apologize for its ties to slavery. The university will give special preference to applicants who are descendants of Georgetown’s slaves, plans to rename a building in honor of one… Continue watching
Aug 31 Watch 6:53 Helping student inventors turn big ideas into the next big thing By PBS News Hour It’s back-to-school season, but these students have taken their brainstorming outside the classroom to solve pressing, real-life problems. Visit a competition where teams of student inventors pitch their entrepreneurial ideas to guests posing as investors, who vote on the best… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 3:44 For creating travel memories, Russell Banks prefers words to images By PBS News Hour Novelist and poet Russell Banks used to feel guilty about not taking pictures to document his trips. Now, he doesn't even bring a camera with him, believing that visually recording an experience would effectively remove him from it. In contrast,… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 8:48 In Chicago, preparing teachers for the classrooms that need them most By PBS News Hour Teaching is extremely difficult in urban school districts. In Chicago, for example, the city is confronting one of the worst budget crises in years, and keeping good teachers is a persistent struggle. But an intensive training program nearby is using… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 9:41 An extremist’s path to academia — and fighting terrorism By PBS News Hour Jesse Curtis Morton begins work as a counterterrorism researcher at George Washington University this fall. But his path to the position was highly unconventional: until 2012, Morton was Younus Abdullah Muhammad, a Muslim extremist who founded a radical Islamist website. Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 5:05 Painting a vibrant picture of Brooklyn in the tumultuous 1970s By PBS News Hour “Another Brooklyn,” by Jacqueline Woodson, is not a typical coming-of-age novel. It takes place in Brooklyn in the 1970s, an environment in which drugs were ubiquitous, white flight was on the rise and young girls of color relied on each… Continue watching
Aug 28 Gender inequality is a $95 billion issue in sub-Saharan Africa By Daniel Moritz-Rabson Gender inequality costs sub-Saharan Africa an average of $95 billion each year according to an annual United Nations Development Programme report published Sunday. Continue reading
Aug 26 Mylan may have violated antitrust law in its EpiPen sales to schools By Ike Swetlitz and Ed Silverman, STAT Mylan’s “EpiPen4Schools” program, begun in August 2012, offers free or discounted EpiPens to schools. Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch 53:25 PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 25, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, the death toll from Italy's Wednesday earthquake rises to 250. Also, a Colombian deal with FARC would end the world's longest-running conflict, how the alt-right is influencing the presidential campaign, Trump’s view of Chinese influence on… Continue watching