Dec 22 Watch Participation in Sports Keeps Kids in School Students from Las Vegas report on how extracurricular activities help kids stay in school. Continue watching
Dec 16 Celebrity Calls Urge Students To Get Up, ‘Get Schooled’ Supermodel Tyra Banks poses with students at Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School in Los Angeles after surprising them with a pep rally as part of the Get Schooled Foundation's attendance challenge. Photo by Brian To/Getty Images. A teenager punches… Continue reading
Dec 16 Behind the Numbers: Why Dropouts Have it Worse Than Ever Before Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images. A new dropout crisis study reveals staggering statistics on economic gaps between those in Chicago and around state of Illinois with and without high school diplomas. Earlier this week, our friends over at… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch News Literacy Project Trains Young People to Be Skeptical Media Consumers A program called the News Literacy Project is training young people in several major cities how to separate fact from fiction in the news they consume. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
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