Mar 28 A Man and a Baby Walk Into a Classroom Andy Haner and daughter Emory visit a third grade classroom at Olympic Hills Elementary School outside of Seattle, Washington. Photo By Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour. SEATTLE -- It's not unusual to see babies while walking around Olympic Hills Elementary School… Continue reading
Mar 28 Anti-Bullying Lessons With the Bard The works of Shakespeare offer a plethora of lessons about violence and its emotional origins. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival has adapted some of the bard's best-loved plays to help adolescents reflect on making better choices when faced with tough situations. Continue reading
Mar 28 Bringing Babies to the Classroom to Teach Empathy, Prevent Bullying Incidents of bullying in schools across the U.S. not only have an effect on students' emotional state, they can also have school wide ramifications. PBS NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Seattle to profile one program that works on… Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch Cyber War Over Spam Slows Access for Internet Users What's Behind One of the Largest Cyber Attacks in Internet History?… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Top-Achieving Poor Students Go Unnoticed by Some Elite Universities Top-Achieving Poor Students Go Unnoticed by Some Elite Universities… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Songs in the Key of Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science Songs in the Key of Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Debating Discrimination, Extent of Federal Authority in Defense of Marriage Act Debating Discrimination, Extent of Federal Authority in Defense of Marriage Act… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Supreme Court Considers Legality of Denying Benefits to Married Same-Sex Couples Supreme Court Considers Legality of Denying Benefits to Married Same-Sex Couples… Continue watching
Mar 27 Social Media Unites Supporters of Same-Sex Marriage, But Is that Enough? If you've been on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram in the past 24 hours, you've seen it -- the red equal sign, a symbol of support for same-sex marriage. The image has been searched more than 1 million times on Google… Continue reading
Mar 27 High Court Skeptical of Federal Defense of Marriage Act // Following the oral arguments at the Supreme Court challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, attorney Roberta Kaplan and plaintiff Edith Windsor, among others, spoke outside the court. Defenders of the act did not appear outside the… Continue reading