• Stockton’s young mayor giving city’s youth more opportunities

    Stockton’s young mayor giving city’s youth more opportunities

    Jun 30, 2018 08:54 PM EST

    ... academic institutional knowledge-- and reenter community-- in a way that I believe-- we should be doing, we're obligated to do it. IVETTE FELICIANO: After graduating from Stanford in 2012, Tubbs returned to Stockton, where he ran and won a seat on the city council. Four years later--at the ...

  • Colleges and businesses team up to fill demand for skilled workers

    Colleges and businesses team up to fill demand for skilled workers

    Feb 09, 2018 06:37 PM EST

    DENVER — David Andy went to college after graduating from high school, spent his first two semesters drifting through introductory classes, then had to pick a major. That was when he had an unfortunate epiphany: He had no idea what he was doing there. “I just didn’t like anything,” said ...

  • In Japan, career women challenge cultural norms

    In Japan, career women challenge cultural norms

    Nov 05, 2017 09:43 PM EST

    ... we will continue to introduce policies for women by 2020.” AMY GUTTMAN: Womenomics is the name for Abe’s policy to close Japan’s gender gap and fuel the economy with programs giving women more opportunities to work and be promoted. Member of Parliament Yunoki Michiyoshi has supported Womenomics. He ...

  • How the upper middle class keeps everyone else out

    How the upper middle class keeps everyone else out

    Aug 05, 2017 08:28 PM EST

    ... in our short term immediate self-interest to do that. In the end, the Brooklyn Heights school rezoning went through. But Reeves says the class gap in education continues right on through college. HARI SREENIVASAN: You also talk a little about the idea of legacies and giving you a leg ...

  • Trump's 'nasty woman' remark adds to woes with female voters

    Trump's 'nasty woman' remark adds to woes with female voters

    Oct 23, 2016 02:31 PM EST

    ... week, leading some to wonder whether his popularity with female voters had reached rock bottom. The candidate who so badly needed to close the gender gap instead saw his "nasty woman" remark — accompanied by a wagging index finger — become a feminist battle cry, a galvanizing moment for Clinton and an ...

  • Why are most inventors men?

    Why are most inventors men?

    Sep 27, 2016 07:30 PM EST

    ... afford to leave inventors behind,” Lee told the NewsHour. “You never know who’s going to come up with that next big idea.” Narrowing the Gap Today, women hold less than one out of five STEM-related patents, and it’s been slow growth just to make it that far ...

  • The complications of ID for non-binary people -- and how it could change soon

    The complications of ID for non-binary people -- and how it could change soon

    Aug 21, 2016 05:01 PM EST

    Two cases are causing state and federal agencies to confront questions over gender neutral IDs for nonbinary people.

  • These key decisions can shape your post-college destiny

    These key decisions can shape your post-college destiny

    Apr 27, 2016 12:39 AM EST

    This time of year, high school seniors and their families are thinking about where they’ll be headed to college in the fall. In “There Is Life After College,” author Jeffrey Selingo examines how one’s post-college years are influenced by crucial choices made before students even enroll. Selingo sits down with William Brangham for a conversation.

  • A new spin on college financing? Treating students like stocks

    A new spin on college financing? Treating students like stocks

    Mar 18, 2016 04:46 PM EST

    The idea of taking a piece of graduates’ future earnings starts to pick up steam.

  • Why college education isn't a bubble

    Why college education isn't a bubble

    Dec 04, 2014 05:10 PM EST

    PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has argued that college is overvalued in this country and that not everyone should go. He's even called it a bubble -- like housing. But entrepreneur and academic Vivek Wadhwa defends higher education, calling Thiel's ideas -- including his fellowship to pay students to drop out of college -- "a race...