May 31 Watch Why Do Alabama Students Drop Out? Teens from Alabama investigate why some of their peers choose to drop out of school. Continue watching
May 30 Watch The State Of Student Loans: More Debt, More Defaults, More Problems The State Of Student Loans: More Debt, More Defaults, More Problems… Continue watching
May 22 Andrew Delbanco Assesses Higher Education’s Full Value Amid Questions About Rising Costs With newly minted college graduates entering the job market this spring -- or at least trying to -- there's a growing discussion and debate about the ever-rising costs of higher education, the spiraling burden of student debt and the value… Continue reading
May 22 Watch College: ‘The Best Rehearsal Spaces We Have for Democracy’ In "College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be," Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco presents a biting defense of a traditional four-year college experience with a liberal arts education -- as opposed to a pre-professional training experience increasingly popular in… Continue watching
May 22 Watch DelBanco on What College ‘Was, Is, and Should Be’ DelBanco on What College 'Was, Is, and Should Be'… Continue watching
May 22 Pakistani Women Counter Country’s Violence With Textbooks, TV Shows By Larisa Epatko Pakistan is experiencing a surge in many types of violence, and some of the women working to counteract it place some of the blame on the country's schools. Continue reading
May 21 Watch Helping High School Youth Learn by Doing Since 1994, YouthBuild has trained 110,000 high school dropouts around the country to put up houses for their community and think critically in the classroom while earning their GEDs or diplomas. As part of the American Graduate series, Paul Solman… Continue watching
May 18 ‘I Am an American Graduate’ – Presenting the Class of 2012 Photo by dp.hotography via Flickr As graduation season approaches, we invite you to share your graduation story with the American Graduate project. We will curate them on our "I Am an American Graduate" Pinterest board, in partnership with… Continue reading
May 18 Chronic Absenteeism — Not a ‘Casual Decision’ While attendance remains somewhat consistent between third and fifth grade, chronic absenteeism climbs in middle school and peaks by the twelfth grade. (Courtesy Get Schooled/The Johns Hopkins University) There's an assumption that in order to do well in school,… Continue reading
May 17 Florida Journalism Program Gives Students Reason to Stay in School By Mike Fritz On Wednesday's NewsHour we introduced you to De'Qonton Davis, an eighth grader from St. Petersburg, Fla. // Davis and his classmates at John Hopkins Middle School examined how violence affects students' ability to learn. They produced a video as part… Continue reading