Jan 10 Watch 7:50 Struggling schools benefit from adding arts to learning By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 3:27 The failure cycle causing a shortage of black male teachers By PBS News Hour Why are there so few black male teachers? Chris Emdin of Columbia University suggests that a cycle of failure haunts students and their teachers. Students act out, so teachers tighten the rules; more restrictions combined with dull and irrelevant curricula… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch 7:46 This inner city school is a bridge to empowerment for children of color By PBS News Hour In one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Brooklyn, in one of the most segregated school systems in the country, principal Nadia Lopez is trying to help kids defy the odds. Lopez talks to special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault… Continue watching
Sep 13 Column: Hey teachers, please stop using behavior charts. Here’s why By Wendy Thomas Russell You know what I’m talking about, right? Those color-coded charts, using cards or clothes pins or Popsicle sticks to represent each child in the class. It’s high time behavior charts themselves got moved down to “a bad color” and expelled… Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 8:48 In Chicago, preparing teachers for the classrooms that need them most By PBS News Hour Teaching is extremely difficult in urban school districts. In Chicago, for example, the city is confronting one of the worst budget crises in years, and keeping good teachers is a persistent struggle. But an intensive training program nearby is using… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch 7:13 Why are early childhood educators struggling to make ends meet? By PBS News Hour Science tells us that critical brain development in children begins well before kindergarten, so their care and education prior to starting school matter. But the very foundation of effective early education -- child care providers -- often struggle to earn… Continue watching
Feb 10 Why it’s cool to be a space geek teacher By Vic Pasquantonio More than 400 teachers from 40 different states and seven countries ventured to Texas for a three-day space conference sponsored by Space Center Houston, a nonprofit organization backed by the support of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 8:32 Why Detroit’s teachers are ‘sick’ of their inadequate schools By PBS News Hour Detroit's public schools have been in financial decline for more than a decade as their enrollment plummeted. Now on the brink of insolvency, the district is confronted with decrepit buildings, a chronic lack of resources and fed up teachers who… Continue watching
Jan 14 Detroit teacher: ‘How can you teach or learn in conditions like these?’ By Lakia Wilson More than 60 schools in Detroit closed earlier this week after teachers called in sick in protest of rodent and mold problems. Continue reading
Jan 11 Watch What a teachers’ challenge to union fees could mean for organized labor By PBS News Hour Can teachers who are not union members be required to pay some union dues? That question is being weighed at the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in a case that could have wide ramifications for organized labor. Judy Woodruff learns… Continue watching