Dec 28 Watch Shields and Brooks on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Precipice, Remembering Gen. Schwarzkopf Shields and Brooks on the 'Fiscal Cliff' Precipice, Remembering Gen. Schwarzkopf… Continue watching
Dec 27 After-School Jobs Spark Academic Success The NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Boston to report on youth employment rates and how the city is reaching out to businesses in an effort to link the classroom to potential careers. Continue reading
Dec 27 What Have We Learned From the Dropout Crisis? In Clark County, Nevada, Chaparral High School's turnaround program had administrators going door-to-door to bring dropouts back to the classroom. Photo by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour. Here's a statistic we've reported on all year: One in four students drops out… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch Shields and Gerson on Cabinet Noms, Gun Laws, Boehner’s Leadership Shields and Gerson on Cabinet Noms, Gun Laws, Boehner's Leadership… Continue watching
Dec 21 2012 Year in Review: Very Best of the Shields and Brooks Doubleheader By Hari Sreenivasan For loyal fans of the Doubleheader, this is the big enchilada. Each week this year we've talked to NewsHour regulars Mark Shields and David Brooks about the sport of politics and the politics of sports. We've conducted these chats far… Continue reading
Dec 19 Research Chimps to Retire to Louisiana Sanctuary By Fred de Sam Lazaro Chimps socialize and snack at Chimp Haven. Image by Cameron Hickey. The NIH announced plans on Tuesday to move more than 100 chimpanzees from the New Iberia Research Center into retirement at Chimp Haven, a 200-acre chimpanzee… Continue reading
Dec 17 A Dramatic End for the Twin Moon Spacecraft This artist's concept shows one of the GRAIL satellites inserting itself into orbit. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech. The twin GRAIL robots, the washing-machine sized satellites that have been zipping around the moon for nearly a year, will end their… Continue reading
Dec 14 Watch Shields and Brooks on Gun Control Policy, Susan Rice, ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Talks Shields and Brooks on Gun Control Policy, Susan Rice, 'Fiscal Cliff' Talks… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch More Than 100,000 Young Immigrants Granted Temporary Reprieve From Deportation More Than 100,000 Young Immigrants Granted Temporary Reprieve From Deportation… Continue watching
Dec 14 Meteor Shower Told in Tweets Israelis in a hot water spring on the shore of the Dead Sea near the Israeli Kibbutz of Ein Gedi watch the sky for Geminid meteor streaks above the Judean desert on December 14, 2012. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty… Continue reading