Sep 17 Watch 9:58 Can a Silicon Valley start-up transform education? By PBS News Hour A for-profit school system called AltSchool now operates in San Francisco and New York, with plans to license its program to public schools across the country. AltSchool's co-founder, a former Google executive, believes methods used in the tech industry, like… Continue watching
Sep 17 Native American candidates hope for pipeline protest boost By James Nord, Associated Press Since April, there's been a tribal protest at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers in southern North Dakota, and it has grown considerably. Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Tribes across North America converge at Standing Rock, hoping to be heard By William Brangham, Mark Scialla, Mike Fritz Protesters of the North Dakota pipeline celebrated after the Department of Justice temporarily halted the project in federal jurisdictions last Friday. But while some equipment sits idle, construction in other areas continues. William Brangham visits the Standing Rock Reservation, where… Continue watching
Sep 16 Reversing course, Trump admits Obama was born in the U.S. By Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press After five years as the chief promoter of the false idea that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Donald Trump reversed course and admitted on Friday that the president was — and then claimed credit for putting the… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch 9:33 When American girls are forced into marriage abroad, the U.S. can do little to rescue them By PBS News Hour Jada was 12 years old and living in New Jersey when her father sent her to Saudi Arabia to be married. With the U.S. government unable to intervene, her astonished family at home took up the challenge of bringing her… Continue watching
Sep 15 The most important standardized test you’ve never heard of By Emily Hanford, APM Reports Are remedial college classes hurting students?… Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch 10:17 Uncovering the problem of forced marriage in the U.S. By PBS News Hour She was never verbally or physically threatened or restrained. But at age 19, Nina Van Harn felt like she couldn’t say no when she was expected to marry a man chosen by her family. And she is not alone in… Continue watching
Sep 14 Column: How I came to report on forced marriage — in the U.S. By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The beginning of my journey reporting this story began with a casual conversation with a friend. “I know you are writing about child marriage in Afghanistan and India and lots of other places,“ she said. “What about what’s happening here… Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 6:21 Donald Trump hasn’t donated to his own foundation since 2008, investigation finds By PBS News Hour Hillary Clinton has been scrutinized for questions about the Clinton Foundation. Now Donald Trump is catching heat for how his own foundation operates. Judy Woodruff speaks with The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold, who has spent the past few months researching… Continue watching
Sep 13 Column: Hey teachers, please stop using behavior charts. Here’s why By Wendy Thomas Russell You know what I’m talking about, right? Those color-coded charts, using cards or clothes pins or Popsicle sticks to represent each child in the class. It’s high time behavior charts themselves got moved down to “a bad color” and expelled… Continue reading