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
Nov 23 Watch Outgoing NYC Schools Chief Klein: School Reform Momentum Will Continue Jeffrey Brown speaks with Joel Klein, outgoing chancellor of New York City Schools, about his sometimes-controversial eight-year tenure and what will become of the national school reform movement with several high-profile departures. Continue watching
Nov 10 Watch Outgoing NYC Schools Chief Joel Klein's Tenure Drew Praise, Criticism Many were surprised to hear New York City schools chief Joel Klein was stepping down to rejoin the private sector after eight years heading up the nation's largest public school system and being part of a U.S. school reform debate. Continue watching
Nov 10 Joel Klein Resigns: What's Next for NYC Schools? My jaw dropped when I learned of Joel Klein's resignation as New York City Schools Chancellor. He's labored long and hard in the nation's largest school system and has achieved some noteworthy success, particularly the large network of small… Continue reading
Oct 26 Community MusicWorks Performs in D.C. When Sebastian Ruth, founder of the Providence, R.I.-based nonprofit Community MusicWorks, brought his group of music students to Washington, D.C., to accept the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, he knew they had one important stop to make before… Continue reading
Oct 23 Festival Showcases Future Faces of Science, Engineering Thousands of students ventured to Washington D.C. for this weekend's finale to the 2010 Science and Engineering Festival. Booths lined the National Mall as the event sought to pique the interest of the nation's youth in science and math… Continue reading
Oct 21 Conversation: MacArthur Fellow, Community MusicWorks Founder Sebastian Ruth By Tom LeGro One of this year's MacArthur Foundation fellows is Sebastian Ruth, founder and artistic director of Community MusicWorks. Continue reading