Aug 21 Watch 4:07 Students face anxieties during return to in-person school By Lorna Baldwin, Ali Rogin, Claire Mufson While most schools across the country returned to in-person instruction last year, many families opted to stick with virtual learning or switched to homeschooling. And for them, the start of this new school year brings a range of new anxieties. Continue watching
Aug 20 Watch 6:01 Why teachers in America are leaving the profession in droves By Harry Zahn, Winston Wilde As students return to the classroom, many will come back to school districts that are understaffed. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 44 percent of public schools will report teaching vacancies at the start of this year, with… Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch 3:16 Arizona camp teaches foster children cowboy skills By Giovanni Soriano, Mariana Arboleda, Akilah Lewis, Caedmon Peterson, PBS Student Reporting Labs Fellow There are more than 14,000 children in Arizona’s foster care system and every summer, a few get to spend a night at the Flying E Ranch, riding horses, shooting arrows and making new friends out of the city and under… Continue watching
Aug 19 Utah judge reverses law banning transgender girls from sports By Brady McCombs, Sam Metz, Associated Press Transgender girls in Utah will be given the opportunity to participate in female sports as the school year begins after a judge reversed a ban pending legal challenges from parents. Continue reading
Aug 16 Biden administration announces $3.9 billion in debt cancelation for former ITT Tech students By Collin Binkley, Associated Press Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Technical Institute as far back as 2005 will automatically get that debt canceled. Continue reading
Aug 15 'Don't Say Gay' law brings worry, confusion to Florida schools By Anthony Izaguirre, Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press Educators are cautiously making changes as they wait to see how the new law governing lessons on gender and sexual orientation will be interpreted and enforced. Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch 2:39 Remembering the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer David McCullough, who died on Sunday at the age of 89, was perhaps best known for his biographies of two often overlooked presidents: John Adams and Harry Truman. But his interests ranged far and wide,… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch 6:08 How schools are tackling safety as students return to class By Lisa Desjardins, Kaisha Young As students head back to the classroom in a few weeks, they bring renewed concerns about safety. That's often left up to individual school districts, but some federal money is available to help. Lori Alhadeff, founder of Make Our Schools… Continue watching
Aug 01 Cities face crisis with smaller schools as enrollment shrinks in wake of pandemic By Collin Binkley, Associated Press Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping to subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 5:38 A printmaking workshop inspires artists to push boundaries By Maureen Barillaro and Jared Bowen, GBH The 50-year-old Brandywine Workshop and Archives in Philadelphia draws in artists, both unknown and very well-known, to push boundaries by producing limited edition prints. It's also an opportunity to get their work into major museum collections like the Harvard Art… Continue watching