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
Dec 05 Judy's Notebook: Why Gridlock Isn't Going Away I escaped from Washington for about a week and a half after Thanksgiving, grateful for a change of scenery after the exciting but long election season. Before I left, President Obama and congressional Republicans were edging toward the "fiscal cliff,"… Continue reading
Dec 05 Obama Takes Fiscal Plan to Business Leaders The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lit on Tuesday. The year's tree is a 65-foot spruce from the White River National Forest in Colorado. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The "fiscal cliff" will remain an outside game Wednesday,… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch Today's Generals Are Well-Trained, But Ill-Prepared for Battle Today's Generals Are Well-Trained, But Ill-Prepared for Battle… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic… Continue watching