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
Aug 15 Watch To Encourage Kids’ Health, Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Check-Up List To Encourage Kids' Health, Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Check-Up List… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch Can a Computerized Test Measure Complex ‘Common Core’ Skills? Can a Computerized Test Measure Complex 'Common Core' Skills?… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch In Defining What Public School Students Should Know, Teachers Wonder ‘How?’ By PBS News Hour In Defining What Public School Students Should Know, Teachers Wonder 'How?'… Continue watching
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Jul 24 Science ‘Classroom Without Walls’ Replete with Snapping Turtles, Snakes EmbedVideo(7015, 482, 304); Eighth grade teacher Darrell Walker routinely teaches his science class in the wetlands behind their North Carolina middle school. Video by Rebecca Jacobson "Snake! Snake!" an eighth-grade student shouts from the boardwalk as she crosses… Continue reading
Jul 18 Watch Language Wars: Should Spanish-Speaking Students Be Taught in English Only? Language Wars: Should Spanish-Speaking Students Be Taught in English Only?… Continue watching