Jan 09 Watch 7:08 Would free tuition boost student success at community colleges? By PBS News Hour President Obama’s plan to make the first two years of community college free could help up to 9 million students and add educated employees to the workforce. But it would cost the federal government billions and would have to pass… Continue watching
Jan 09 College essays could be early clue for college grades By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed Admissions essays are thought of by many as less scientific than other parts of the college application process -- a chance to share a personal story, to inject personality into the process, to become more than just a grade-point average… Continue reading
Jan 09 Obama’s immigration order raises more questions than answers for my students By Marysol Gomez I can’t help but be resentful that this may transform into yet another burden for my students to bear -- a burden that they are reluctant to share even with me. Continue reading
Jan 09 Obama to outline plan for free community college By Kyla Calvert Mason President Barack Obama will announce a proposal today to make two years of community college free for eligible students with the goal of making a two-year college degree as universal as a high school diploma. Continue reading
Jan 08 Could push to improve teacher training start by taking a cue from flight schools? By Kirk Carapezza, WGBH The burn-out rate for teachers in this country is high. Nearly half leave the profession within five years. That doesn’t come without consequences, American schools are falling behind. Some teacher educators are looking for what it would take to better… Continue reading
Jan 07 With number of English learners growing, school districts get federal guidance on honoring students’ civil rights By Kyla Calvert Mason For the first time this year, non-white children make up a larger portion of the country’s public school students than white children. Within that growing racial diversity is an increasing linguistic diversity. There are about 5 million public school students… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 6:51 Is the new GED test an educational improvement or setback? By PBS News Hour An overhaul of the GED to meet Common Core standards has made the high school equivalency test more rigorous and more expensive. As a result, fewer people are taking and passing it. Gwen Ifill gets debate from Randy Trask of… Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch 8:15 Schools provide educational and mental health support to influx of undocumented teens By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 01 Winners revealed for PBS NewsHour Extra’s #MyZeitgeist competition By Corinne Segal NewsHour Extra, the NewsHour’s educational resource site for teachers, challenged students to tell the story of 2014. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 7:41 Ebola, Ferguson and Derek Jeter make high schoolers’ #MyZeitgeist videos By PBS News Hour A contest sponsored by PBS Newshour Extra and Google asked students to create a digital mash-up looking back at 2014. Judy Woodruff talks with three high schoolers who entered the #MyZeitgeist competition about deciding what events made their year-in-review videos… Continue watching