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
Dec 25 Watch 7:39 What will sink and what will survive as states test Common Core? By PBS News Hour In 2008, a set of academic standards for U.S. public schools called the Common Core was created for states to voluntarily implement. Intended to raise the bar for American students and teachers, many states that originally signed on are now… Continue watching
Dec 24 Watch 5:19 Sparking a love for science by studying how Christmas trees burn By PBS News Hour A group of high school students in Maryland aren’t just playing with fire -- they are gathering and studying the data as well. The NewsHour’s April Brown reports on a fire science class at the University of Maryland for local… Continue watching
Dec 24 Watch 8:22 With virtual seminars and lower tuition, Minerva Schools offers online alternative to college By PBS News Hour There are no lectures allowed at San Francisco’s Minerva Schools, an innovative college with a curriculum specifically designed to improve knowledge retention for students. Professors hold their seminar-style classes online, allowing Minerva students to move around the globe each semester,… Continue watching