Feb 02 Watch 7:58 Seeing success, conservative Oklahoma banks on universal preschool By PBS News Hour Children in Oklahoma don't wait for kindergarten to begin public education; there's preschool for anyone who wants it. While costly, the government program has been hailed for the long-term benefits and has become a national model. Special correspondent Cat Wise… Continue watching
Feb 02 Oklahomans have embraced free, universal early education — and it’s working By Lillian Mongeau, The Hechinger Report Oklahomans trend conservative, yet they’ve embraced free, universal early education. Continue reading
Feb 02 Remember your first book? One group hopes you don’t By Larisa Epatko Remember that favorite book from your childhood, the one that made you fall in love with reading? One organization in New York wants your experiences with books to predate even that. Continue reading
Jan 31 Is Clinton channeling her inner Sanders in Iowa? By Michael D. Regan and Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas, Associated Press Making her closing argument to Iowa caucus-goers, Clinton now cloaks her detailed policy plans in Sanders' outraged rhetoric. Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch 4:05 Vast digitizing project will put Harvard’s colonial archives online By PBS News Hour Harvard University has launched a project to digitize almost half a million items from its 17th and 18th century archives – the largest digitizing effort the university has ever undertaken. The letters, journals, documents and drawings tell the story not… Continue watching
Jan 31 States move to issue high school diplomas retroactively By Catherine Gewertz, Education Week New laws are giving students who never passed their state's required high school exit exams another chance to graduate. Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 2:15 Female cadet commands respect at her high school By PBS News Hour Shantell Gonzalez of Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High in Miami refuses to let gender stereotypes get in the way of service to her country: she is the only female CO in her school’s Junior ROTC unit. Our Student Reporting… Continue watching
Jan 29 How Donald Trump made my students take politics more seriously By Anne La Pietra Anne La Pietra teaches government at Urbandale High School in Iowa and discusses what it's like to go "first," how Donald Trump has made her students more politically-engaged than ever before. Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch 1:50 These girls build their future every time they go to construction class By PBS News Hour High school students Channell Rogers and Sierra Buster refuse to let gender stereotypes prevent them from pursuing construction, a hobby they both enjoy and a career they both aspire to. Our Student Reporting Labs report as part of Outside the… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 2:18 The only girl in school to spark an interest in welding By PBS News Hour Kalei Kipp is the only girl in the welding program at her high school. Why don't more women go into that profession? Our Student Reporting Labs report as part of Outside the Box, a series on the ways that young… Continue watching