Nov 18 NewsHour Extra’s #MyZeitgeist contest opens for entries By Corinne Segal, Katie Gould NewsHour Extra, the NewsHour’s educational resource site, is challenging students with its annual #MyZeitgeist contest to create digital projects about the most important news events of 2014. Inspired by Google’s annual Zeitgeist year-in-review montage, #MyZeitgeist encourages innovation… Continue reading
Nov 17 Number of international students on U.S. campuses at an all-time high By Kyla Calvert Mason While the number of internationals students coming to the U.S. has increased in most of the last dozen years, that growth picked up during the recession. Schools like the University of California’s campuses looked to other countries for students who… Continue reading
Nov 13 Watch Encouraging rural Alaska’s students to become teachers By PBS News Hour In Alaska, roughly three out of four teachers are from out of state, and more likely to stay for a shorter period of time than those who were born and raised there. The NewsHour’s April Brown reports from the town… Continue watching
Nov 13 In rural Alaska, embracing native culture during and after the school bell By April Brown, Mike Fritz Sassa Williams, 18, and her siblings, triplets Theresa, Chris and Grant, 14, work on their homework after school at their home in Dillinhgam, Alaska. But there comes a time when the phone rings, and everyone, including mom Kim, who has… Continue reading
Nov 13 College prices continue to inch higher By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Time to stock up on the ramen noodles. The average cost of attending college crept up again this year, the College Board said Thursday. Continue reading
Nov 12 Are future teachers getting too many easy A’s? By Kyla Calvert Mason A new report shows teaching candidates are getting higher grades than students in other departments at the same colleges. More challenging coursework would lead to better prepared teachers, the authors conclude. Continue reading
Nov 11 A veteran’s tough love message to at-risk kids — and fellow vets By Margaret Warner Do vets coming home from the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have something unusual to teach the young people of today? If you listen to West Point graduate and retired Lt. Col. David Oclander, who is now a… Continue reading
Nov 06 For-profit colleges aim to fight regulation with new lawsuit By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The for-profit college sector filed a lawsuit Thursday that seeks to halt new regulations of its industry. Continue reading
Nov 06 Popular, short-term training programs may not pay off for students By Kyla Calvert Mason Workers considering heading back to school to boost their earning power may want to avoid certificate programs that last less than a year. By the end of the decade more than 60 percent of U.S. jobs are expected to require… Continue reading