Jul 05 Column: College planning now may mean less stress for seniors come fall By Shondra Carpenter As summer gets underway, rising seniors may want to think about getting a jump start on college planning. Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch 7:11 Writing is his redemption after spending his youth behind bars By PBS News Hour By the age of 19, Shaka Senghor was behind bars after his teen years as a drug dealer ended with a death on his hands. Senghor says his story is all too familiar for many young black men. The author… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch 7:03 For some NFL players, ban on medical marijuana is a real pain By PBS News Hour Percocet or pot? An increasing number of Americans are choosing to use legalized cannabis instead of highly addictive opioids to control chronic pain but not in the NFL where a blanket ban is still in place. A group of retired… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch 5:24 Why you can’t talk about the Southern kitchen without slaves’ contributions By PBS News Hour The recipe for the bestselling brand of American whiskey wasn’t simply the invention of its founder — it was greatly influenced by a slave who worked for the distiller. That public acknowledgment by Jack Daniel’s helps raise broader questions about… Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch 24:55 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode July 2, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, July 2, ISIS claims responsibility for a terrorist attack in Bangladesh that killed at least 20 people. Later, immigrants in the American heartland are keeping rural businesses afloat. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch 4:08 Antarctic ozone hole believed to be shrinking By PBS News Hour Scientists studying climate change in Antarctica reported this week that a hole in the protective ozone layer of the Earth’s atmosphere has shrunk. The discovery of the hole in the 1980s led to a worldwide phasing out of ozone-depleting chemicals… Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch 7:54 Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders one class at a time By PBS News Hour In most states across America, education for teen offenders pales in comparison to what they'd receive on the outside. Just one third mandate that these kids meet the same standards as their public school counterparts. Massachusetts is one of them,… Continue watching
Jun 29 Can Mississippi schools get ahead after a new round of budget cuts? By Marquita Brown, The Hechinger Report Art lessons or larger classes? Years of stagnant funding forces Mississippi educators to make tough choices. Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch 6:24 Innovative program helps even the playing field for poor students — and boost graduation rates By PBS News Hour For Georgia State’s Tyler Mulvenna, a $900 grant from an innovative retention program let him live on campus, work less and do what he came to do: study. The school, worried about abysmal graduation rates for poor students found, a… Continue watching
Jun 28 The business class where high school students are running the company By Vic Pasquantonio A 20-year-old entrepreneur credits a high school business class with giving him the skills and drive to start his own company. Continue reading