Dec 07 It Takes a Village: City Year’s Role in Dropout Prevention Watch: City Year corps member Sara Ross describes what her team does at Broadmoor Middle School and how they make a difference in students' lives. Editor's note: The latest installment of our American Graduate series takes us to Broadmoor… Continue reading
Dec 06 Gwen’s Take: What You Didn’t Know About Election 2012 I consider myself a voracious consumer of information. This was true during the 2012 presidential campaign, and it remains true today. This week, one month after the end of a close election, we learned that, in Ohio, President Obama beat… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch Battleground Dispatches: Norfolk Readies for Future Storms, Sea Level Rise Battleground Dispatches: Norfolk Readies for Future Storms, Sea Level Rise… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch An Argument Against Seeking Fiscal Fix in Cuts to Medicare and Social Security An Argument Against Seeking Fiscal Fix in Cuts to Medicare and Social Security… Continue watching
Dec 06 Why ‘Mastering’ the Basics of Why We Go to School Matters Editor's note: The latest installment of our American Graduate series takes us to Broadmoor Middle School in Baton Rouge, La., a school that is using data to improve student attendance, behavior and class performance. Watch the report here. Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch Refugees Take Shelter Underground in Abandoned Syrian Town Independent Television News' John Irvine reports from a town called Sirjilla in the Idlib region of Syria. Bombed out and virtually abandoned by its residents, the town now provides an underground home for hundreds of refugees. Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch Preventing Syrian Chemical Weapons Threat From Becoming Deadly Reality Preventing Syrian Chemical Weapons Threat From Becoming Deadly Reality… Continue watching
Dec 05 Coral Reefs and Shellfish Battle Acidifying Oceans The world's ocean are absorbing carbon dioxide at an unprecedented rate and the resulting acidification is already altering marine ecosystems. We look at how ocean acidification is affecting shellfish and coral reefs. Continue reading
Dec 05 The Internet Takeover That Never Was Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications gathered for an opening press conference Dec. 3, 2012. Photo by the International Telecommunications Union. This week and next, representatives from the world's 193 nations are gathered in Dubai… Continue reading
Dec 05 Swarming Lights and Tadpole Trains Bring Public Transit to Life This week, a co-worker introduced me to a series of time-lapse animations that visualize a 24-hour stretch of public transit in various cities. Here's New York, which resembles a frenzied swarm of LED ants, or as Mashable describes… Continue reading