Jan 28 Obama renews his commitment to equality in education By Rachel Wellford President Obama reiterated his commitment to a range of education issues in his 2014 State of the Union on Tuesday, from early childhood education to training high schools in the technical fields to affordable college tuition. Continue reading
Jan 27 Twitter Chat: Ask your internship and volunteer questions By Bridget Shirvell PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EST. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour and use the hashtag#NewsHourChats. Photo By Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images Some high schools require students to volunteer while… Continue reading
Jan 24 Catholic school vice principal dismissed for being in a gay marriage By Robert Pursell Mark Zmuda, a former vice principal and swim coach at Seattle's Eastside Catholic High School, was dismissed after being confronted about his gay marriage. Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch Certification test focuses on readying students for work, not college By Cindy Huang Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch College students combat hackers By PBS News Hour Business and government spent around $46 billion in 2013 to guard against malicious cybercriminals. How can the U.S. combat this growing threat? Carnegie Mellon University is training the next generation of cybersecurity experts by teaching them to think like hackers. Continue watching
Jan 16 Obama pushes new measures to get poor students into college By Elizabeth Jones Now in college with a full-ride scholarship, Troy Simon admitted to an audience at the White House that he couldn’t have made the jump from being unable to read at age 14 to pursuing higher education without help. That… Continue reading
Jan 16 Goodwill develops charters to entice dropouts back to school By Mike Fritz The Indianapolis mayor's office approved a network of charter schools designed by Goodwill of Central Indiana with the specific intent of enticing dropouts back to the classroom to earn their high school diploma. Known collectively as The Excel Center, the… Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch Goodwill tries tailoring education to meet needs of adult dropout students By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 15 Federal government spending bill investing billions in education By News Desk Education programs will receive large funding boosts as part of the new bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in January. Continue reading
Jan 09 How young newsmakers helped shape the world in 2013 By Vanessa Dennis Pope Francis and NSA leaker Edward Snowden can argue over who rightly deserves the title “Person of the Year,” but many of the year’s big stories involved younger people. From drone strikes and cutting edge medical research, to Hollywood… Continue reading