Apr 22 Percentage of Americans with college degrees rises, paying for degrees tops financial challenges By Kyla Calvert Mason Nearly 40 percent of working-aged Americans now hold a college degree, according to a new report from the Lumina Foundation. Continue reading
Apr 21 Student reporters honored as #NextGen public media producers By Thaisi Da Silva What do an eighth grade news anchor from Newark, N.J., a three-time student Emmy winner from Michigan and Montana's Journalist of the Year scholarship winner all have in common? These students, along with eight other youth journalists from across the… Continue reading
Apr 18 Michigan students march to end 'zero tolerance' approach to school discipline By Kyla Calvert Mason About 150 Michigan students, parents and educators plan to take the 90-mile trip from Detroit to the state’s capital in Lansing Monday through Wednesday to protest schools’ zero-tolerance discipline policies. That may not seem like much of an undertaking –… Continue reading
Apr 17 Lessons from a successful 'dropout recruiter' By Elizabeth Jones A 'dropout recruiter' shares some lessons and success stories of encouraging male dropouts to earn their diploma. Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch Las Vegas high school curriculum leader talks about Common Core By April Brown Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Facing bipartisan backlash, Oklahoma reconsiders Common Core education standards By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch Students stick around for two years of college at innovative Brooklyn high school By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch UN initiative tackles inequality of educational opportunity around the world By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 10 Should six years be the new standard for high school? By Colleen Shalby During Thursday's 6 p.m. EDT showing of P-TECH on NewsHour's live stream channel, the American Graduate team offered some extra insight into their report on Twitter. Continue reading
Apr 10 Gordon Brown plans to send 400,000 Syrian refugee children back to school By Kyla Calvert Mason PBS NewsHour Co-Anchor Judy Woodruff and Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown discuss an effort to educate Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon. Continue reading