Feb 26 Watch 6:12 Afghan activist’s memoir details her inspirational fight to educate women By Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Kotuby, Alexa Gold When the Taliban roared back to power in Afghanistan in 2021, education activist Pashtana Durrani had some 7,000 girls enrolled in her organization. The schools were shuttered and Pashtana was forced to flee. She’s now living in exile in the… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 5:47 A Brief But Spectacular take on building trust in school By Steve Goldbloom Valor Collegiate Academy in Nashville encourages students to share what's going on in their lives and to accept support, creating what they call a community of care. We hear from high school teacher Natalie Nikitas and Valor students as they… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch 5:21 School leaders work to keep students in class amid rise in chronic absenteeism By Geoff Bennett, Gabrielle Hays, Dorothy Hastings Chronic absenteeism is a problem for school districts and students and the situation has grown significantly worse since the pandemic. Nearly 30 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2021-2022 school year, missing at least 10 percent of school… Continue watching
Jan 17 Chronic absenteeism is up across the country. School leaders are trying to address why By Gabrielle Hays Federal guidelines say districts should aim to have 90 percent of students in attendance 90 percent of the time. In Missouri, about 76 percent of students meet this standard, according to state data from the 2022-23 school year. Continue reading
Jan 10 Oklahoma is the latest state to target DEI programs. What’s next? By Adam Kemp Oklahoma has now joined other states, like Florida and Texas, that have moved to limit DEI programming in higher education institutions. Continue reading
Dec 25 Under Taliban rule, Afghan girls end the sixth grade in tears, their education over By Mohammad Habib Rahmani, Associated Press In September 2021, a month after U.S. and NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan following two decades of war, the Taliban announced that girls were barred from school beyond sixth grade. Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch 6:42 11-year-old author Linda Pistun on changing the world by teaching girls science By John Yang, Andrew Corkery, Juliet Fuisz Five years ago, Linda Pistun set out to achieve two goals: end world hunger and improve science education in public schools. In August, at the age of 11, she became a published author. John Yang speaks with Pistun about how… Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch 4:51 Why school board elections are garnering national attention By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris School board elections have become a new battleground in American politics, with typically non-partisan races becoming increasingly polarized and garnering national attention. That was true in this week's election among a few closely watched counties. Julie Marsh, a professor of… Continue watching
Oct 06 This Oklahoma program pairs schools with farmers to cut down the cost of school meals By Adam Kemp Dropping the door to the trailer hitched to his pickup, Brandon Crow steered a forklift to unload boxes of okra, squash, cucumbers and cantaloupe. He arranged each stack next to a small paper sign with a local school name on… Continue reading
Sep 25 More school districts adopt 4-day weeks, citing lower costs and better teacher recruitment By Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press Some experts question the effects on students who already missed out on significant learning during the pandemic. For parents, there is also the added complication, and cost, of arranging child care for that extra weekday. Continue reading