Oct 02 Education Secretary Arne Duncan to step down in December By Josh Lederman and Kathleen Hennessey, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan is stepping down in December after 7 years in the Obama administration. Continue reading
Sep 29 How do war, poverty and gender affect a child's education? By Nina Chaudry In 2000, the United Nations set a goal that by 2015 every child in every nation should be able to obtain free basic education -- believing literacy can help reduce poverty and promote economic development. At the time, over 100… Continue reading
Sep 29 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lin-Manuel Miranda win MacArthur fellowships By Corinne Segal Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and Broadway composer-playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda join a puppeteer, a video artist, a community leader and many others as the new group of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellows. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch 8:09 Striving for girls' education in the birthplace of Voodoo By PBS News Hour Around the world, 59 million children are out of school and 250 million are not learning the basics. The WNET series "Time for School" travels to Benin, where nearly half of girls have had no formal schooling and often marry… Continue watching
Sep 28 80 colleges plan admissions revamp to reach more disadvantaged students By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed Eighty leading colleges and universities are announcing today a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges -- largely through the Common Application -- have made their applications increasingly similar. Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch 9:10 On the journey to meet the high standards of education in Japan By PBS News Hour Since 2003, PBS has followed children from different countries as part of the documentary series "Time for School." In this fourth installment, hear the story of Ken Higashiguchi from Nara, Japan, where the school hours are long and the expectations… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch 7:57 Struggling Catholic schools seek ways to set themselves apart By PBS News Hour Today only about 2 million American students attend Catholic school, down from 5 million in the 1960s, due to a variety of social and economic reasons. Thousands of schools have closed as church leaders and educators struggled to make the… Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch 4:03 High-flying flips is the trick to keeping away bad feelings By PBS News Hour In a report from the NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs' teacher boot camp, meet a young man who fights his demons with meditation and high-flying acrobatics called tricking. Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch 8:47 Why it's hard for girls in rural India to stay in school By PBS News Hour Fifteen years ago, the UN set a goal that by 2015 there would be universal free primary education. Although the number of children out of school has been cut almost in half, getting them to stay in school has proved… Continue watching
Sep 20 Watch 9:31 Shadowed by fear and violence: One student's story from a Rio slum By PBS News Hour Since 2003, PBS has followed children from different countries as part of the documentary series "Time for School." In this second installment, hear the story of Jefferson Narciso from Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro's poorest and violent neighborhoods. Shy… Continue watching