Oct 12 Watch 9:16 Is kindergarten too young to suspend a student? By PBS News Hour At the largest charter school network in New York City, strict academic and behavior standards set the stage for learning. That doesn't exclude children as young as 5 or 6 years old, who can be given out-of-school suspensions if they… Continue watching
Oct 09 Pentagon puts for-profit University of Phoenix on probation By Dan Sagalyn The Defense Department has placed the University of Phoenix on probation, barring the for-profit school from recruitment activities and career fairs on military bases. Continue reading
Oct 08 Albuquerque hosts massive effort to send more to college By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about higher education. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a nondescript one-story industrial building surrounded by a neighborhood… Continue reading
Oct 08 For Gates, better training for front line workers key no matter the challenge By Kyla Calvert Mason Bill and Melinda Gates tell the PBS NewsHour's Gwen Ifill about lessons learned from their decade plus in philanthropy -- especially their reflections on work to end the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch 9:54 Bill and Melinda Gates on the political debate over Common Core standards By PBS News Hour Bill and Melinda Gates, two of the world’s leading philanthropists, sit down with Gwen Ifill in Seattle to discuss their efforts to support education reform and the political battles over the Common Core standards. Continue watching
Oct 07 Melinda Gates says Common Core pushback propelled by changing too much, too fast By Kyla Calvert Mason Tonight PBS NewsHour Anchor Gwen Ifill talks with Bill and Melinda Gates about their foundation’s influence on American public education and what they’ve learned in 15 years of supporting sometimes controversial reforms. Continue reading
Oct 07 As Bush campaigns, Florida struggles with his schools legacy By Gary Fineout and Sergio Bustos, Associated Press Jeb Bush's signature achievement in education policy as Florida governor may be at risk of coming apart. Continue reading
Oct 07 What 15 years in education reform has taught Bill and Melinda Gates By Kyla Calvert Mason PBS NewsHour’s Gwen Ifill talks with Bill and Melinda Gates at the Gate Foundation U.S. Education Learning Forum. They’ll explore lessons they’ve learned from 15 years working in education, what keeps them excited about efforts to improve seemingly intractable problems… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch 25:03 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode October 3, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, October 3, 2015, a United States airstrike against the Taliban in Afghanistan accidentally hits a hospital, killing and wounding dozens. In our signature segment, transforming how America's teachers are trained. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch 7:24 How a Boston program is transforming the way we train teachers By PBS News Hour The Boston Teacher Residency, an AmeriCorps service program that recruits future teachers and places them in schools for practical experience is being heralded as a model for training teachers. And other cities have begun to take notice. NewsHour's Christopher Booker… Continue watching