Nov 26 Watch Lessons from Los Angeles' school records disaster By PBS News Hour A new student record system adopted by the Los Angeles Unified School District has caused chaos for kids, teachers and administrators. Kindergarteners were accidentally enrolled at high schools, while hundreds of older students spent weeks without class schedules. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Nov 26 Obama administration releases plan to grade teacher prep programs By Kyla Calvert Mason Too many new teachers are under-prepared for the classroom and left figuring out how to reach students on their own. That’s the problem proposed regulations from the Department of Education mean to solve, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reports during… Continue reading
Nov 21 How to support students on the brink of deportation By Lauren Markham For students who face the possibility of deportation back to serious danger, it’s hard to focus on algebra or biology -- on anything, really. Continue reading
Nov 21 Some colleges reconsider ties to Cosby By Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed At least one college is distancing itself from Bill Cosby, the once-family-friendly comedian who has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women. Continue reading
Nov 20 Why Obama's immigration announcement is also about education By Kyla Calvert Mason The day after President Barack Obama unveils his plans for new changes to enforcement of the country’s immigration laws, he’ll make his case for the changes at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. Talking about what is on its… Continue reading
Nov 19 Watch Wash. school district tries arming administrators to protect students from shootings By PBS News Hour In Washington state, where there was a deadly school shooting just last month, a different district has been training administrators to carry guns in case of a confrontation with an active shooter. Special correspondent Terry Murphy of KCTS Television in… Continue watching
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