Dec 10 Watch Watch Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch Watch Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 09 With schools closed in Liberia, education nonprofit joins Ebola battle By Larisa Epatko The nonprofit More Than Me helps girls in Liberia’s West Point slum get an education and stay off the streets. But when Ebola hit last summer, the organization shifted gears to assist in the fight. Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch 4:03 These Syrian child refugees work in the fields to support their displaced families By Marcia Biggs Continue watching
Dec 04 Are China's ties with U.S. universities healthy? By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press China's authoritarian government is gaining a foothold on American campuses by funding dozens of institutes that project a rose-tinted view of the Asian nation that compromises the academic integrity of U.S. universities, a congressional hearing was told Thursday. Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch Can the U.S. restructure schools to nurture Native American students? By PBS News Hour The high school graduation rate for Native Americans is the lowest of any ethnic or racial group in the United States. How can the government assist reservation schools while respecting autonomy of tribes? Judy Woodruff talks to Secretary of the… Continue watching
Dec 01 Watch 6:04 Philadelphia schools aim to innovate to escape crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch California students take a stand to topple teacher tenure; New York up next By PBS News Hour A 2012 legal case brought by nine public school students in California, who argued the state's teacher tenure laws denied their right to a quality education, ended a few months ago after a judge declared the laws unconstitutional. Shortly after… Continue watching
Nov 29 Teacher tenure rules are in state of flux across the nation By News Desk NewsHour Weekend's piece on a lawsuit filed by nine California students against the teacher tenure system tells the story of just one battle in a war being waged across the country. More than a dozen states have changed their tenure… Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch Lessons from Los Angeles' school records disaster By PBS News Hour A new student record system adopted by the Los Angeles Unified School District has caused chaos for kids, teachers and administrators. Kindergarteners were accidentally enrolled at high schools, while hundreds of older students spent weeks without class schedules. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching