National attention has been focused on overt racial tensions on college campuses across the country. But what about smaller, subtle, more persistent forms of racism? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Derald Wing Sue of Teachers College at Columbia University…
Oct 26

By PBS NewsHour
Standardized testing in schools has gotten out of hand, according to the Obama administration. After being supportive of testing and assessment, the White House has reversed policy and now recommends capping testing at 2 percent of class time. Gwen Ifill…
Oct 22

By Lillian Mongeau, The Hechinger Report
Presidential candidates hoping to attract Millennials, Hispanics and swing state voters in 2016 could be well-advised to make early education a key part of their education platform, according to the results of a new national poll showing that 76 percent…
Tune in Saturday as PBS celebrates individuals and organizations working to help students reach the goal of high school graduation.
Oct 02

By PBS NewsHour
Oct 02

By PBS NewsHour
In Cleveland, a special school-to-work program leads community college students to jobs at a local steel plant where hundreds of workers are expected to start retiring. Special correspondent Amy Hansen from WVIZ/PBS Idea Stream reports in a preview of American…
Sep 24

By PBS NewsHour
Today only about 2 million American students attend Catholic school, down from 5 million in the 1960s, due to a variety of social and economic reasons. Thousands of schools have closed as church leaders and educators struggled to make the…
Sep 06

Florida requires 300 low-performing elementary schools to add an hour of focused reading to their school day. Four years into the initiative, how effective has it been? Alison Stewart checks in for this update to a report that aired last…
Jul 29

Decades after losing touch, family members from two different continents were reunited at the American Cemetery in Normandy, France, to honor a World War II soldier who was killed in action just after the D-Day invasion. The NewsHour’s April Brown…
Jul 27

By Mike Fritz, April Brown
They found love letters, pictures, death-notice telegrams, and even insurance settlement claims that have survived for decades. Cpl. Henry Bernard Van Hyfte with his father in Minnesota before World War II. The discoveries are a result of a…
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