Nov 04 Students' excitement to run for office tempered by politics By Anna Christiansen PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs asked teens across the country for their reaction to an 18-year-old running for office and whether they could ever imagine themselves doing the same. Continue reading
Nov 04 Teens weigh in on future of American political system By Thaisi Da Silva In October, the PBS NewsHour's Extra team sent an anonymous online questionnaire about politics to 80 schools in the Student Reporting Labs network, which trains middle and high school students in video journalism. Here's what they had to say. Continue reading
Oct 31 Cheating suspicions keep Chinese, South Korean students waiting for SAT scores By Kyla Calvert Mason SAT scores for college hopefuls that took the exam in October are out. That is, unless the test taker is a resident of China or South Korea. Concerns over cheating have the College Board and the Educational Testing Service, the… Continue reading
Oct 30 For toddlers, it's the quality of the screen time that matters, study reveals By Kyla Calvert Mason Parents, you can give up the twinge of guilt you feel when you let your toddler watch television or play with your smartphone or tablet, according to a new report from Zero to Three. Continue reading
Oct 30 For-profit colleges face 'gainful employment' rule By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- For-profit colleges that don't produce graduates capable of paying off their student loans could soon face the wrath of the federal government. Schools with career-oriented programs that fail to comply with the new rule being announced Thursday by… Continue reading
Oct 28 1 in 6 female undergrads sexually assaulted on MIT campus, survey finds By Kirk Carapezza, WGBH In an unprecedented, broad-based survey, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology polled students about their attitudes and experiences with sexual assault on campus. One in six female undergraduate students who responded to the survey say they've experienced sexual assault on the… Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch Empowering students with disabilities to find exercise they love By PBS News Hour Physical education is required in most American high schools, but for teenagers with physical and developmental disabilities, there can be greater restrictions on how they can get active. The NewsHour’s April Brown reports on how schools in Florida’s Miami-Dade County… Continue watching
Oct 27 How a student with autism taught me to kayak By April Brown Daniel Hernandez is a 10th grader with striking eyes and a ready smile who is prone to answer questions with a polite “Yes, ma’am.” This young man, who is 16, used to be described as "shy," but he knows a… Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch Why did no one flag UNC's bogus classes? By PBS News Hour For more than 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took credit courses that never met as a class with a professor; a disproportionate number of the students in those classes were athletes. Continue watching
Oct 22 On campus, fight Ebola panic with information By Joel Aguilar How does an off-hand comment about Ebola turn into campus-wide panic?… Continue reading