Feb 21 Watch 5:25 Staging walkouts and rallies, students and family members implore lawmakers to end gun bloodshed By PBS News Hour As dozens of survivors from the Florida school shooting lobbied the Republican-led Florida legislature for tougher gun control, thousands across the country heeded a call to walk out of classes, massing at Florida’s state capitol, as well as the U.S. Continue watching
Feb 21 Watch 11:18 These students are fed up with going to school scared for their lives By PBS News Hour Student-led rallies in support of gun control are picking up momentum in Florida and around the country, in part born out of anger over the easy availability of assault-style weapons. Judy Woodruff gets perspectives from Camille Richter and Jake Bennett,… Continue watching
Mar 15 As protests increase, student demands get more ambitious By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed The number and complexity of students' demands of administrations is going up -- and some of the items deal with issues typically left to faculty governance. Continue reading
Sep 26 Colorado students protest proposed curriculum changes By Jenny Brundin, Mike Lamp and Nathaniel Minor, Colorado Public Radio For the past week, more than a thousand students have walked out of their classes at several schools in Colorado's Jefferson County, protesting proposed changes to curriculum in U.S. History classes. Continue reading
Apr 10 Watch California Community Colleges Face Dilemmas Amid Tighter Budgets California Community Colleges Face Dilemmas Amid Tighter Budgets… Continue watching
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Yang Jianli By PBS News Hour Yang Jianli, a student activist at the Tiananmen Square anti-government protests in 1989, now lives in the United States and continues to advocate for human rights 20 years later. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Wang Dan By PBS News Hour Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng By PBS News Hour In the weeks leading up to the military crackdown in Tiananmen in 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng came to represent the conservative wing of the Communist Party leadership, speaking for those who favored the harshest response to student demonstrators. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Communist Party Official Zhao Ziyang By PBS News Hour On May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang picked up a bullhorn and urged student demonstrators to end their hunger strike against the Chinese government in the name of peace and national stability. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Patriarch Deng Xiaoping By PBS News Hour While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early… Continue reading