May 21 Watch 3:45 China's 'left behind' kids raised by grandparents while parents earn in U.S. By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 21 Stephen Colbert, Madeleine Albright and others have some advice for the class of 2015 By Colleen Shalby For the past few weeks, college graduates across the country have accepted their diplomas, bidding their academic years adieu as they embark into the world beyond. But not before listening to a classic commencement speech about the time behind them,… Continue reading
May 21 These groups of Asian-Americans rarely attend college, but California is trying to change that By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report As one group of Asians who don’t go to college in large numbers, the Hmong help illustrate the complex changing demographics of students arriving at American universities and colleges: increasingly nonwhite, low-income, and first-generation. Continue reading
May 20 Watch 8:40 What do struggling historically black colleges like SC State need to do to survive? By PBS News Hour Students graduating from South Carolina State are no different from most recent grads: diploma in hand, they look forward to a bright future. But their alma mater’s future is more uncertain. The historically black college is facing mounting financial troubles… Continue watching
May 20 Prisoners might get access to Pell grants for first time in two decades By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed The U.S. Department of Education is poised to announce a limited exemption to the federal ban on prisoners receiving Pell Grants to attend college while they are incarcerated. Continue reading
May 19 Threatened with closure, one historically black university charts a path to recovery By Kyla Calvert Mason When Darian James walks across the South Carolina State campus in her hometown of Orangeburg she sees a place where much of her life to this point has played out. It's the place where she went to preschool through middle… Continue reading
May 18 Watch What's the legacy of Head Start 50 years on? By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson announced the creation of Head Start, the early education program designed to support the needs of low-income children and get them ready for elementary school. The NewsHour’s April Brown explores the legacy and efficacy… Continue watching
May 17 Watch Will declining funding stunt scientific discovery in the U.S.? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 15 Watch 5:05 This high school trains Baltimore's students to be artists By PBS News Hour At the Baltimore School for the Arts, students are admitted solely on their artistic potential; notable alumni of the pre-professional high school includes Jada Pinkett Smith and designer Christian Siriano. We meet some of the educators and current students who… Continue watching
May 14 Government opens public inquiry into potentially 'harmful' student loan servicing practices By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened a public inquiry Thursday into student loan servicing practices that it says can make paying back loans "stressful or harmful."… Continue reading