Jun 24 What employers really want: Skills get you hired; behavior gets you fired By Gerald Chertavian How does Year Up, a career development program for urban young adults, place students without college degrees in stable jobs? Paul Solman speaks with Year Up founder and CEO Gerald Chertavian about teaching the cognitive abilities that land their students… Continue reading
Jun 24 Amazon drone plan runs into FAA challenge By Sam Lane The Federal Aviation Administration has, at least for now, squashed plans by online shopping giant Amazon to deliver packages via drone. Continue reading
Jun 24 Remembering 'Freedom Summer,' the civil rights effort that changed America 50 years ago By Lyndsay Knecht, KERA Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. But that didn’t come without a price. It was the era of the Freedom Summer, a brave and bloody campaign to get blacks registered… Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 'Ivory Tower' explores why American higher education is so pricey By PBS News Hour The rise in U.S. college tuition is unsustainable. That’s the argument of a new television documentary, “Ivory Tower,” which tackles growing worries and critique over college costs and student debt. Jeffrey Brown talks to filmmaker Andrew Rossi about the origins… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Crackdown on Al Jazeera journalists helps government control Egypt's narrative By Ariel Min The controversial convictions of three Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt are among the most high-profile cases in a general crackdown on dissent. Jeffrey Brown talks to Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Michael Hanna of the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Year Up raises employment odds for young adults by teaching job-ready skills By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Can U.S. break away from World Cup 'group of death'? By PBS News Hour U.S. soccer fans watched Portugal extinguish an American victory with less than a minute left. The match ended in a tie of 2-2, but a win by the U.S. would have carried the team to the next round of the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch After Cantor's loss, incumbents brace for primary challenges By Ariel Min Voters in seven states will head to the polls Tuesday for another set of primary elections. Since House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia’s Republican primary two weeks ago, incumbents all over the country are scrambling to secure victories. Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch News Wrap: FBI recovers child victims of sex trafficking across the U.S. By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, a nationwide FBI operation has recovered 168 victims of child sex trafficking. The children are Americans and many had never been reported missing, said FBI director James Comey. Also, Syria handed over the last of… Continue watching
Jun 23 72,000-student Corinthian Colleges reaches deal to sell or 'teach-out' programs By Kyla Calvert Mason For-profit Corinthian Colleges, Inc. reached a deal with the Department of Education to sell or discontinue its programs over the next six months. The deal comes after the Department of Education added a 21-day waiting period to federal student aid… Continue reading