Jan 01 Watch School of Wine: Training Students for Jobs in Washington State’s Wine Industry School of Wine: Training Students for Jobs in Washington State's Wine Industry… Continue watching
Dec 31 Boston’s School-to-Career Program Gives Disadvantaged Students Running Start Escarolyn Garcia, second from right, in 2011 with other students selected as Judge Davis S. Nelson Fellows. Photos courtesy of Escarolyn Garcia Escarolyn Garcia grew up learning several skills that would be useful in the workplace. She participated in pageants… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch Why After-School Jobs Keep Young Adults in School Jobs can provide teenagers with an exciting glimpse of economic freedom, as well as a new set of responsibilities and money, often for the first time. But education experts say part-time and after-school jobs also play a pivotal role in… Continue watching
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Dec 27 After-School Jobs Spark Academic Success The NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Boston to report on youth employment rates and how the city is reaching out to businesses in an effort to link the classroom to potential careers. Continue reading
Dec 27 What Have We Learned From the Dropout Crisis? In Clark County, Nevada, Chaparral High School's turnaround program had administrators going door-to-door to bring dropouts back to the classroom. Photo by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour. Here's a statistic we've reported on all year: One in four students drops out… Continue reading
Dec 21 Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Newtown, Gun Violence EmbedVideo(5266, 482, 304); Earlier this week, correspondent Gwen Ifill sat down with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for the PBS special report "After Newtown," which airs 8 p.m. ET Friday, one week after the mass shooting at… Continue reading
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