Dec 13 Watch Singer Anthony Hamilton Encourages Teens to Stay in School Singer Anthony Hamilton could have been one of these young people. Continue watching
Dec 13 Singer Anthony Hamilton Encourages Teens to Stay in School According to the Children's Defense Fund, more than 400,000 children are registered in the foster care system in the United States, and less than one in four are adopted each year. 26,000 of these young people age out of… Continue reading
Dec 09 The Education Conversation We look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. View the story "The Education Conversation" on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 07 U.S. Charter School Enrollment Hits Milestone, But Questions Remain Photo courtesy of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. More and more students are attending charter schools in the United States, but performance results from these independent schools are still a mixed bag. Two million of the nation's… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch Parlez-Vous? Some Louisiana Pupils Being Immersed in French Instruction Louisiana's French heritage is being embraced in many immersion classrooms in the state. It goes beyond language -- some students are learning math, science and social studies in French. Sue Lincoln of Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Southern Education Desk… Continue watching
Nov 25 Watch Detroit Tackles Dropout Crisis By Engaging Students, Parents Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school district in the country." Hari Sreenivasan and Detroit Public Television report on how the city's public schools are… Continue watching
Nov 25 Reporter’s Notebook: Helping Students Succeed in Detroit The facts that paint a bleak, dark, down-and-out Motor City are not scarce. Whether it is the unemployment, or foreclosures, or crime, Detroit finds itself on lists like Forbes' 20 most miserable cities. But in my travels, it ranks… Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch What’s on the Menu in School Cafeterias? Lawmakers recently weighed in on what's in school lunches, a battle that attracted a great deal of attention from the food industry. Judy Woodruff reports. Continue watching
Nov 24 The Education Conversation This week we look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. View the story "Education roundup - Nov. 21, 2011" on Storify]… Continue reading
Nov 22 Can Tech Startup Schools Teach #TheNextBigThing? Depending on where you live, the word startup has different connotations. For some, it means embarking on an adventure filled with unknown risk and ending in likely peril; for others, like those in our story on Tuesday's NewsHour broadcast, it's… Continue reading