Dec 14 Watch Ohio School District Uses Unique Peer Evaluations to Grade Teachers Special correspondent for education John Merrow reports how public schools in Toledo, Ohio, are implementing a unique peer-evaluation program for educators that looks to nurture teachers, but make it easier to remove ineffective ones. Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch Violent Tuition Protest Encounter Roils Royals The vote to triple university tuition in Britain triggered protests that turned violent and encountered a Rolls Royce carrying Prince Charles. ITN correspondent Simon Israel has more. Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch News Wrap: Tensions Run High in Haiti Amid Election Recount In other news Friday, police were out in force in Haiti as officials checked vote tallies from the disputed presidential election. The U.S. has issued a travel warning to Americans and flights to and from Port-au-Prince were halted as well. Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch In U.K., More Demonstrations Appear Likely After Tuition Tripling Protests intensified in London after legislation passed to triple university tuition fees. Margaret Warner gets the latest on the protests, what's behind them and what's next with Ned Temko from The Observer. Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch Secretary Duncan: Schools Must Become Centers of Communities The results from a new global survey show U.S. students are falling behind much of the world in reading, math and science. Gwen Ifill speaks with Education Secretary Arne Duncan about the results and the the state of American schools. Continue watching
Dec 07 ‘Education for Innovation’ Town Hall: How Do U.S. Students Stack Up? The NewsHour took part in a special town hall meeting Tuesday on education and innovation. Gwen Ifill and Hari Sreenivasan moderated the event, which included an interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Here's an excerpt of the event:… Continue reading
Dec 01 Watch Chicago High School Prepares Students for Real-World Manufacturing Jobs With unemployment holding steady above 9 percent, the jobs market looks bleak. But there is one industry that has added jobs: manufacturing. Ash-har Quraishi of Chicago News Cooperative reports on one public school that's retooling to help its graduates take… Continue watching
Nov 30 Patchwork Nation: Mapping High School Dropout Rates Of all the factors that go into making a community the local school system may be the most critical. Better schools not only equal better-educated kids, but often better property values and a better quality of life. On Tuesday, a… Continue reading
Nov 30 U.S. Schools Make Progress, but ‘Dropout Factories’ Persist In the world of education reform, several U.S. school districts have made significant changes over the last decade, including coming to grips with dropout problems. But the pace of improvement is too slow and uneven to meet the national goals… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Graduation Report ‘Encouraging,’ But Many Schools Risk ‘Dropout Factory’ Status New nationwide statistics show a rise in high school graduation rates, but there is still significant disparity between school districts in different parts of the country. Margaret Warner talks to the report's co-author, John Bridgeland, about what the findings mean. Continue watching