• Biden administration pushes for diversity in transition to clean energy

    Biden administration pushes for diversity in transition to clean energy

    May 04, 2021 10:48 PM EST

    "For example, not having state-of-the-art research laboratories could prevent or minimize faculty members from getting or obtaining preliminary data to demonstrate a proof of concept that's needed to compete for these research funds," Lewis said. Many faculty members also have a heavy teaching workload, and ...

  • What Breonna Taylor's name and image is teaching America about Black lives

    What Breonna Taylor's name and image is teaching America about Black lives

    May 04, 2021 10:25 PM EST

    It's one thing to say, hi, we have some memberships, right? But it's another to say, listen, we're going to take on this subject matter that means so much to so many people and we're going to do this justice. We need you to join us ...

  • D.C. charters lead the way on in-school teaching experiment

    D.C. charters lead the way on in-school teaching experiment

    Oct 12, 2020 03:31 PM EST

    ... a nonprofit that advocates for the charter system. “There are real innovations coming out of it.” Each of the three student “cohorts” at the Social Justice School are assigned a specific bathroom to use. At both Meridian and Social Justice, the hallway water fountains have been shut down. Social Justice ...

  • Why you can thank Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. for doctors washing their hands

    Why you can thank Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. for doctors washing their hands

    Aug 28, 2020 09:20 PM EST

    ... take many more years for doctors to routinely wash their hands before attending any patient, which, of course, is now standard operating procedure -- And paramount for everyone when it comes to reducing the spread of COVID-19. The debate of who ultimately gets credit for telling doctors to wash their ...

  • How some educators are teaching antiracism to the youngest students

    How some educators are teaching antiracism to the youngest students

    Aug 27, 2020 05:55 PM EST

    ... leaders have strongly encouraged Seattle Public School educators to teach about the Black Lives Matter movement’s 13 guiding principles — such as collective value, restorative justice and the empowerment of Black families — for one week in February. Some school leaders have welcomed that opportunity, and others have not, Leary said ...

  • For people leaving prison, rebuilding a life is hard even without a pandemic

    For people leaving prison, rebuilding a life is hard even without a pandemic

    Jul 14, 2020 08:12 PM EST

    ... care, housing and jobs. That is the case even without a pandemic accompanied by an economic crisis. One thing I’ve learned while researching criminal justice reform and teaching college classes in prisons is that the reason the transition to life outside the corrections system is so hard is that ...

  • Why pandemic represents 'existential crisis' for performing artists

    Why pandemic represents 'existential crisis' for performing artists

    Apr 23, 2020 10:20 PM EST

    ... re insulated, because you may have had a rainy day fund, but none of us has had, like, a monsoon fund or a tsunami fund for a moment like this, when everything has ceased. Jeffrey Brown: Now there's just remote teaching. And like gig workers across the economy, Winterstein ...

  • Broken Justice Episode 3: When things go wrong - the full transcript

    Broken Justice Episode 3: When things go wrong - the full transcript

    Dec 10, 2019 07:51 PM EST

    ... in 2009, 13 years after Ricky was first locked up, a federal court agreed to hear his innocence appeal -- the kind he’d been waiting for. And Sean thought the hearing was off to a great start. On the first day, as they were waiting for a witness to arrive ...

  • How 'the incarceration capital of America' embraced criminal justice reform

    How 'the incarceration capital of America' embraced criminal justice reform

    Aug 31, 2018 10:35 PM EST

    ... notorious 18,000-acre facility, the country's largest maximum security prison. John Sheehan is not nearing the end of his sentence. He's here for life after being convicted in the late '80s of killing his wife. But he's dedicated his time to teaching inmates a skill that ...

  • How was Larry Nassar allowed to abuse athletes for so long?

    How was Larry Nassar allowed to abuse athletes for so long?

    Jan 24, 2018 11:45 PM EST

    ... out. Angela Povilaitis: The fact that the women led the investigation, the prosecution team, and that three female judges now sentenced defendant Nassar is poetic justice. Judy Woodruff: Nassar has already been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. There were also new developments late ...