Apr 03 Watch Kentucky School District Wants Project Based Learning to Outshine Testing Kentucky School District Wants Project Based Learning to Outshine Testing… Continue watching
Apr 03 The Plusses and Pitfalls of Teaching Online By dariely Dan Ariely is not just a great and funny teacher, but he's dedicated his life to making the world a somewhat better place. To that end, he's produced an online course on behavioral economics that already has attracted 140,000 students. Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch Should Public Money Be Used for Private Schools? The Indiana Supreme Court upheld a law allowing taxpayer money to be used for private schools through vouchers. Hari Sreenivasan examines the implications with Kevin Chavous, executive counsel for American Federation for Children, which promotes vouchers, and Dennis van Roekel,… Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch News Wrap: Dozens of Atlanta Educators, Former Chief Indicted for Cheating News Wrap: Dozens of Atlanta Educators, Former Chief Indicted for Cheating… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch In School, Babies Teach Older Children to Consider Feelings and Needs of Others In School, Babies Teach Older Children to Consider Feelings and Needs of Others… Continue watching
Mar 28 Create a Science Rhyme to Win a Shout-Out From Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA EmbedVideo(6066, 482, 304); Teachers in New York are using rap to teach complex science. PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez reports on the effectiveness of this strategy and interviews hip-hop legend GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. In his upcoming… Continue reading
Mar 28 A Man and a Baby Walk Into a Classroom Andy Haner and daughter Emory visit a third grade classroom at Olympic Hills Elementary School outside of Seattle, Washington. Photo By Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour. SEATTLE -- It's not unusual to see babies while walking around Olympic Hills Elementary School… Continue reading
Mar 28 Anti-Bullying Lessons With the Bard The works of Shakespeare offer a plethora of lessons about violence and its emotional origins. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival has adapted some of the bard's best-loved plays to help adolescents reflect on making better choices when faced with tough situations. Continue reading
Mar 28 Bringing Babies to the Classroom to Teach Empathy, Prevent Bullying Incidents of bullying in schools across the U.S. not only have an effect on students' emotional state, they can also have school wide ramifications. PBS NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Seattle to profile one program that works on… Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch Top-Achieving Poor Students Go Unnoticed by Some Elite Universities Top-Achieving Poor Students Go Unnoticed by Some Elite Universities… Continue watching