Sep 12 Watch 7:38 One college turns its football field into a farm and sees its students transform By PBS News Hour At Paul Quinn College, where once there was a football field, now there’s an organic farm. It’s not just a symbol of renewal for this once-struggling historically black college in Dallas; it’s where students work to pay tuition. As part… Continue watching
Sep 12 The shortage of non-white professors is a self-perpetuating problem By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report People in doctoral pipelines to university jobs are disproportionately white, making black educators hard to come by. Continue reading
Sep 11 How Clinton and Trump plan to tackle education as president By Associated Press Hillary Clinton has spent decades talking about the needs of children and touting the benefits of early education. It's a new subject for Donald Trump. Continue reading
Sep 10 Column: 17 years after 9/11, how have students’ reactions changed? By Patrick Welsh In what seemed like about a half hour after the second plane hit, we heard a loud explosion outside the school. Continue reading
Sep 10 Column: I was there on 9/11. Now it’s a history lesson that I teach By Annie Thoms Students in my classes remembered September 11 as high-schoolers; then as middle-schoolers; as grade-schoolers; then, only through their parents’ stories. Ten years later, the experience was already a generation removed. Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 2:31 An illustrator explains the art of making pictures speak to children By PBS News Hour Christian Robinson says he had a hard time reading as a child, and so he didn’t have a great relationship with books. But he could always find solace in drawing. Today, he has turned his childhood hobby into a career… Continue watching
Sep 08 Could a Hillary Clinton presidency spark a preschool revolution? By Lillian Mongeau, The Hechinger Report An election of Hillary Clinton could mark the first time a U.S. president's signature issue is early childhood education. Continue reading
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