Sep 05 Twitter Chat: Is College Worth the Steep Price? PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour using the hashtag #NewsHourChats. Photo By Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images. Summer may not be over for… Continue reading
Sep 04 Watch Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch Oakland Schools Work to Transform Experience for African-American Boys Oakland Schools Work to Transform School Experience for African-American Boys… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch How to Train and Retain Great Principals in Struggling Urban Schools How to Train and Retain Great Principals in Struggling Urban Schools… Continue watching
Aug 27 The Top Back-to-School Lesson Plans for All Teachers Summer is winding down and teachers and students are heading back into the classroom, so NewsHour Extra, the NewsHour's teacher resource website, has compiled a list of need-to-have lesson plans and classroom tools to help make… Continue reading
Aug 23 The Advice I'd Give My College Freshman Self Student at the Regis University Library. Photo by Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images. Things always look differently in hindsight than in the moment. It's almost as if you should have been able to predict what would happen… Continue reading
Aug 22 Watch President Obama Offers Plan to Make Colleges More Affordable and Accountable President Obama Offers Plan to Make Colleges More Affordable and Accountable… Continue watching
Aug 22 Obama Proposes New System for Rating Colleges EmbedVideo(7206, 482, 304); During a speech Thursday morning in Buffalo, N.Y., President Barack Obama announced a new three-pronged approach to lower the costs of college. His goals include a new rating system of colleges and universities based on the… Continue reading
Aug 22 50 Years Later, Youth Reflect on Race in America and MLK's Dream By Thaisi Da Silva PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs gathered voices of American youth, who reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. King delivered his famous address 50 years ago on Aug. 28 at the… Continue reading
Aug 21 Is 'Generation Debt' Out of Control? Anya Kamenetz is a contributor to "Fast Company" magazine, the author of "Generation Debt," and an expert on what many describe as the nation's student loan debt crisis. Kamenetz joins Hari Sreenivasan in New York to discuss… Continue reading