May 22 Death of Philly first grader at school leads to calls for nurses, funding By Kyla Calvert Mason A Philadelphia first grader collapsed in his classroom at Andrew Jackson Elementary School in South Philadelphia Wednesday and died two hours later, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The 7-year-old boy was the second student to die in the… Continue reading
May 22 Have resegregation trends changed your high school? By Frank Bi, Kyla Calvert Mason Use our searchable database to see how these trends are playing out in your high school. Continue reading
May 21 Watch Using dancers' discipline as leaping off point for academics By PBS News Hour The National Dance Institute of New Mexico aims to instill in young people the lessons of success through lessons in dance: hard work, perseverance and health. This year, NDI taught nearly 8,000 students — a majority from low-income families —… Continue watching
May 20 Why aren't high school students graduating? New report sheds light By Elizabeth Jones [caption id="attachment_103650" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Twenty percent of students leave high school without graduating according to a report released today from GradNation, a campaign of America’s Promise Alliance. But why? Photo by Flickr user Milken Community Schools[/caption] While a report… Continue reading
May 20 First Lady Michelle Obama promotes arts education program with White House talent show By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Count on singing and dancing, maybe even a few magic tricks, when the curtain goes up Tuesday on the very first White House talent show. Continue reading
May 17 Watch Is integration important to today's high school students? By PBS News Hour To mark the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, we asked our network of Student Reporting Labs across the nation if integration should be a national goal. Here's a sampling of… Continue watching
May 16 Watch 60 years after Brown v. Board, school segregation isn't yet American history By PBS News Hour Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the question of how far we’ve come in eliminating segregated education is not a simple one. Gwen Ifill leads a discussion with Cheryl Brown Henderson of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity,… Continue watching
May 16 Have we abandoned the goals of Brown v. Board of Education? By Kyla Calvert Mason When 17-year-old Jessica Black walks to school, the neighbors she sees mirror her city’s diversity. There are white, Asian, black and interracial families living on her block in Washington, D.C. But at Calvin Coolidge High School, where she is a… Continue reading
May 13 Availability of pre-K education varies widely between states By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Want your child to go to a state-funded pre-K program? Choose your home state wisely. A new report to be released Tuesday finds wide disparities in the number of spots available for publicly funded preschool programs. A whopping… Continue reading
May 12 University lectures are ineffective for learning, analysis finds By Travis Daub After nearly a thousand years, it might be time for universities to rethink how professors convey wisdom and information to their students, Science magazine reports. A meta-analysis of 225 studies published in PNAS found that the age-old practice… Continue reading