Mar 10 Watch New SAT to Debut for Nation's High School Students A redesigned Standard Aptitude Test including an essay section will be administered to high school students for the first time this weekend. Correspondent Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW-Chicago looks at the new exam. Continue watching
Feb 22 Harvard President Summers' Remarks About Women in Science, Engineering By PBS News Hour Harvard President Lawrence Summers faced intense criticism for remarks he made about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering at a Jan. 14 closed-door conference. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Changing Number of High School Dropouts Special correspondent on education John Merrow reports from Florida on the changing numbers of high school dropouts. Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch U.S. Schools Weigh Abstinence Education Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television looks at the debate over abstinence-only sex education programs in schools. Continue watching
Nov 17 Watch Margaret Spellings Nominated as Secretary of Education Margaret Warner leads a discussion with two education policy experts, about the nomination of Margaret Spellings to replace Rod Paige as the secretary of education. Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch A Look at Whether Americans Are Reading Enough Jeffrey Brown examines whether Americans are reading enough in a conversation with Dana Gioia, head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch Study Finds Charter School Students Lag Behind Public School Counterparts The American Federation of Teachers released an analysis this week of a Department of Education study, which found that fourth-grade students in public schools are more proficient in reading and math than their counterparts in privately run charter schools. Two… Continue watching
Aug 17 Watch St. Louis School Experiments with Allowing Private Firm to Help Run Schools The St. Louis School District turned to a New York firm for help after an audit revealed it was spending around 40 percent more than the national average per pupil and only 5 percent of its high-school juniors could read… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch Budget Cutbacks Cause Public Schools to Struggle Decreased funding has caused many public schools across the nation to struggle to stay afloat. Spencer Michels reports on the detrimental effect budget cutbacks have on schools located in lower income areas in California. Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch Students Stay Home Graduate programs at several U.S. universities have seen a considerable decline in the number of applications from foreign students after stricter post-9/11 regulations for student visas were enforced. Betty Ann Bowser examines the impact at some Colorado universities. Continue watching