Jan 11 The NewsHour Has the Flu This partial world map shows Google.org Flu Trends. Red indicates the most intense flu activity. Orange is moderate, yellow is low and green is minimal. Image by Google. The NewsHour has the flu. Or a really bad cold. Continue reading
Jan 08 How One STEM School Aims to Lower the Achievement Gap WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is suffering from a shortage of applicants in the science, technology, engineering and math fields -- or STEM. This is especially true for non-Asian minorities and low-income students, who are statistically less likely to… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the Deficit, Gun Rights, Legal Immigration Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the Deficit, Gun Rights, Legal Immigration… Continue watching
Jan 07 Beyond Suburbia: The Other Side of Vultures A black vulture chews on a rubber seal from a vehicle in Everglades National Park, Florida. Photo by Curtis Morgan/Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images. On Friday, I wrote about a colony of vultures that has occupied a suburban… Continue reading
Jan 04 Shields and Brooks on Sandy Relief, Fighting Irish By Hari Sreenivasan Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join us for the first Doubleheader of 2013. This week's topics are the politics behind the delay in the vote on relief funds for the victims of… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch Shields and Brooks on New Year’s Predictions, Budget Fights, Chuck Hagel Shields and Brooks on New Year's Predictions, Budget Fights, Chuck Hagel… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch Ohio Third Graders Face Retention Ultimatum: Learn to Read or Repeat the Year Ohio Third Graders Face Retention Ultimatum: Learn to Read or Repeat the Year… Continue watching
Jan 04 Smoking Out the Vultures A few hours before sundown, the vultures arrive by the dozens to roost in Jessica Paulin's backyard. They swoop in, choose the perfect evergreen branch, and with one or two flaps of their massive wings, settle in for the… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch Why After-School Jobs Keep Young Adults in School Jobs can provide teenagers with an exciting glimpse of economic freedom, as well as a new set of responsibilities and money, often for the first time. But education experts say part-time and after-school jobs also play a pivotal role in… Continue watching
Dec 28 Shields and Brooks: Best Political Gaffes of 2012, NFL Playoff Predictions By Christina Bellantoni Mark Shields and David Brooks agreed on one thing in our year-end Doubleheader Friday: that the gaffes that defined 2012 were primarily from Republicans. I was filling in for Hari Sreenivasan, who is enjoying a break for… Continue reading