Dec 16 Watch Shield, Brooks on Iowa Debate, ‘Rattling Sabers’ Over Iran, Iraq War’s Legacy Shield, Brooks on Iowa Debate, 'Rattling Sabers' Over Iran, Iraq War's Legacy… Continue watching
Dec 16 Behind the Numbers: Why Dropouts Have it Worse Than Ever Before Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images. A new dropout crisis study reveals staggering statistics on economic gaps between those in Chicago and around state of Illinois with and without high school diplomas. Earlier this week, our friends over at… Continue reading
Dec 13 Singer Anthony Hamilton Encourages Teens to Stay in School According to the Children's Defense Fund, more than 400,000 children are registered in the foster care system in the United States, and less than one in four are adopted each year. 26,000 of these young people age out of… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch Shields, Brooks on Obama’s 2012 Strategy, Cordray’s Rejection, Gingrich’s Surge Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news, including President Obama's re-election strategy, Newt Gingrich's poll surge in swing states and the Republican-led effort to block Consumer Financial Protection Bureau nominee… Continue watching
Dec 07 U.S. Charter School Enrollment Hits Milestone, But Questions Remain Photo courtesy of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. More and more students are attending charter schools in the United States, but performance results from these independent schools are still a mixed bag. Two million of the nation's… Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch Shields, Brooks on Gingrich’s ‘Skeletons,’ Bill Clinton’s ‘Second Act,’ Tax Cuts Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news, including the likelihood of Newt Gingrich being elected president, Bill Clinton's post-presidential work, lawmakers' struggles over the payroll tax cut extension and Rep. Continue watching
Nov 25 Watch Shields and Brooks on GOP Foreign Policy Debate, Supercommittee Failure Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news, including GOP hopefuls' attempt to draw sharp distinctions on foreign policy during their latest debate, the shift on immigration among Republicans and the… Continue watching
Nov 25 Reporter’s Notebook: Helping Students Succeed in Detroit The facts that paint a bleak, dark, down-and-out Motor City are not scarce. Whether it is the unemployment, or foreclosures, or crime, Detroit finds itself on lists like Forbes' 20 most miserable cities. But in my travels, it ranks… Continue reading
Nov 10 ‘We Still Live Here’ Traces Comeback of Wampanoag Indian Language On Thursday's NewsHour, we'll feature an excerpt of the film "We Still Live Here," which tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag Indian language, the first time a language with no native speakers has been revived… Continue reading
Nov 04 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Supercommittees, Honey Badgers By Hari Sreenivasan Now that baseball season is over, where will syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks spend their leisure hours? They'll likely be back to the heavy lifting of political news. In our "sport of politics" section… Continue reading