Jan 22 Watch 6:40 Is ‘The Test’ failing American schools? By PBS News Hour As Congress considers revisions to the No Child Left Behind education law, there’s a larger debate about the role and efficacy of using standardized tests as assessment. Anya Kamenetz, author of “The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized… Continue watching
Jan 22 With more than 200,000 unfilled jobs, colleges push cybersecurity By Kirk Carapezza, WGBH From UMass Boston to Vermont’s Champlain College, institutes of higher education are trying to boost the number of graduates in a field that barely existed ten years ago: cyber security. And they're scrambling to keep up with increased cyber security… Continue reading
Jan 21 Republicans begin revising ‘No Child Left Behind’ By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press A Republican-backed proposal is on the table with two options: keep the testing mandate as is or allow states to decide how to test. Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch Sen. Joni Ernst delivers GOP response to Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 20 Watch President Obama’s full 2015 State of the Union address By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 20 Watch Obama: Community college should be ‘as free and universal in America as high school’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 20 Obama: Community college should be ‘as free and universal in America as high school’ By Kyla Calvert Mason As expected, President Obama outlined his proposal to offer two years of free community college tuition for students, first detailed two weeks ago in Tennessee. Or as he put it in the speech, "to lower the cost of community college… Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch 8:21 Connecting the classroom to promising health careers By PBS News Hour Students at Oakland’s Life Academy are getting a head start on health science careers by integrating academics with career-based training and a workplace environment. The high school, which serves low-income and minority students, also has the city’s second highest rate… Continue watching
Jan 20 The reality of life and death intersect for students at two Oakland schools By April Brown, Mike Fritz Sometimes, the realities of life and death intersect at Life Academy, a health sciences-focused public school in Oakland, California. Continue reading
Jan 19 Separating fact from fiction: the problems of teaching North Korea By Christopher Mazura Editor’s note: The film “The Interview” and the decision by Sony Pictures to cancel its release in theaters brought debates about free expression and racial representation in film. Here, high school teacher Christopher Mazura addresses the challenges of discussing the… Continue reading