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 Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Finding Community Solutions to Gun Violence Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Finding Community Solutions to Gun Violence… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch NRA Rejects Calls for New Gun Laws, Advocates Armed Guards in Schools NRA Rejects Calls for New Gun Laws, Advocates Armed Guards in Schools… Continue watching
Dec 21 Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Newtown, Gun Violence EmbedVideo(5266, 482, 304); Earlier this week, correspondent Gwen Ifill sat down with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for the PBS special report "After Newtown," which airs 8 p.m. ET Friday, one week after the mass shooting at… Continue reading
Dec 21 Gwen’s Take: Sandy Hook and the Politics of Pain I think it's fair to say we have all been crying for a week. Watching the faces of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting scroll by, in silence, at the end of the PBS NewsHour on… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch 3:30 ‘My Mom Grabbed Me and Held Me as Tight as She Could:’ Kids React to Newtown By PBS News Hour As young people across the country began to mourn and process the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the NewsHour asked students from the 45 schools participating in its Student Reporting Labs to talk with their classmates about their initial reactions. Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch North Dakota’s Sen.-Elect Heidi Heitkamp on Gun Control, Keystone Pipeline North Dakota's Sen.-Elect Heidi Heitkamp on Gun Control, Keystone Pipeline… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch ‘Tis the Season, But Should We Save or Spend? A Holiday Money Conundrum 'Tis the Season, But Should We Save or Spend? A Holiday Money Conundrum… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch Understanding Why Delivering Aid Can Be a Dangerous Endeavor While aid groups operate with apolitical, humanitarian intentions, workers trying to bring relief in the middle of conflicts often find themselves in danger. Ray Suarez talks to Joel Charny of InterAction about the recent deaths of health workers trying to… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch House GOP Opt for ‘Plan B’: Little Chance of Agreement Before Christmas House GOP Opt for 'Plan B': Little Chance of Agreement Before Christmas… Continue watching