Jun 03 Watch 6:21 Restoring San Francisco Bay’s wetlands one native plant at a time By PBS News Hour The San Francisco Bay’s wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate due to encroaching development, leaving the local ecosystem at risk. Moreover, the wetlands can store as much carbon as a tropical rainforest, an invaluable asset in the effort to… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch 2:37 Teens on being tethered to their phones and social media By PBS News Hour Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media, and most of them can’t even conceive of a time where people sat around the dinner table without checking their Instagram pages. We asked a handful of eighth-graders… Continue watching
Jun 01 Watch 3:37 Keeping your family safe and dealing with the ‘what ifs?’ By PBS News Hour With horror stories of extremist violence dominating headlines around the globe, it’s easy to get worked up over the threat, however improbable, of domestic terrorism. National security analyst and mom Juliette Kayyem says there’s no such thing as perfect safety,… Continue watching
May 31 Watch To cut costs and strengthen public schools, Vermont plans massive consolidation By PBS News Hour In Vermont, voters will decide next week whether to okay the largest public school reorganization in 125 years. A new ballot measure would merge smaller schools and do away with perks that let parents use tax dollars to send their… Continue watching
May 29 Column: How I answer my students’ tough questions about military service By Darrell Jones Darrell Jones, who served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years, shares how he teaches his classes about the history of Memorial Day and how he answers the question often posed by his students: does he know anyone who… Continue reading
May 28 Court ruling raises possibility Kansas schools will not open By John Hanna, Associated Press Kansas faces a threat that its public schools won't open for the next school year after the state Supreme Court rejected some education funding changes made by the Republican-dominated Legislature. Continue reading
May 27 Column: How one military veteran teaches his students about Memorial Day By Demetrius Ball High school teacher Demetrius Ball hopes that by sharing a little about what life was like in the military, his students might further understand the meaning of Memorial Day. Continue reading
May 27 Watch 8:03 Meet the ‘courtroom dogs’ who help child crime victims tell their stories By PBS News Hour Getting child crime victims to open up is never easy for investigators and asking them to tell their stories to a jury can be brutally traumatizing. To help these kids overcome their fears, some courtrooms across the country are employing… Continue watching
May 27 Watch 52:36 PBS NewsHour full episode May 27, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima and pays tribute to the bombing victims. Also: Inside Obama’s nuclear legacy, a new film recognizes American POWs killed at Hiroshima, the fight for food… Continue watching
May 27 Why getting a student’s name right matters By Kenya Downs NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan hosts a special Google Hangout on what it really means when we mispronounce students' names. Continue reading