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Education – PBS NewsHour
Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.
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Why education reform keeps failing students
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, a conversation about education reform and some of its shortfalls. It is the subject of a new book by a familiar face, who joins Jeffrey Brown for tonight’s Making the Grade. JEFFREY BROWN: For close to two decades now, or even longer,...
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More older Americans than ever are struggling with student debt
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio This is part of an ongoing series of reports called ‘Chasing the Dream,’ which reports on poverty and opportunity in America. By Megan Thompson and Mori Rothman MEGAN THOMPSON: Nancy Kukay works at a community college in Maryland, coordinating technical education...
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At an innovative high school, students get support battling their addictions while they learn
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: And now to our America Addicted series. Drug use has been down among teenagers, but mortality is rising. And that is leading many to seek out new options for their children. The “NewsHour”‘s Pamela Kirkland went to look at how one so-called…
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Vermont’s rules on vaccines for school met with parents’ support and pushback
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: For some parents in the U.S., it’s a question in the fall: Should they vaccinate their children to send them to school? The American Academy of Pediatrics believes so and says that a measles outbreak that started at Disneyland a few years ago shows...
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How ‘personalized learning’ can put college in reach for nontraditional students
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, we conclude our special education series Rethinking College. Tonight, how one university offers customized learning to fit the busy lives of nontraditional students. Hari Sreenivasan has our report, part of our weekly segment Making the…
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Job training and community college put coal miners on a new path
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JOHN YANG: Now we return to our Rethinking College series. This week, we take a look at efforts to help unemployed coal miners earn community college degrees and get on-the-job training. Hari Sreenivasan has our report, part of our weekly segment Making the…
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How online graduate programs offer degrees at significant savings
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we continue our special series on Rethinking College with a look at graduate students who pay little or even nothing for a top 10 master’s degree program. Hari Sreenivasan has our report. It’s part of our weekly segment Making the Grade. HARI...
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Colorado apprenticeship program turns the factory floor into a classroom
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio MILES O’BRIEN: Next, we continue our series Rethinking College, with a look at the nation’s first statewide youth apprenticeship program. As Hari Sreenivasan reports, it offers high school and college credit and pays students for their work. This story is part of...
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Purdue invests in students’ futures with new model of financing
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio Find all of our stories in our Rethinking College series JUDY WOODRUFF: As students are heading back to campus, we kick off a special series we do each year on innovative ideas in higher education. It’s called “Rethinking College.” We start with a look at how one...
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Can students return a billion oysters to a New York harbor?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio CLARISSA LYNN: Does everyone have a pen or pencil? IVETTE FELICIANO: 7th grade science teacher Clarissa Lynn takes her class on a 15-minute walk from their school in Harlem to New York City’s East River. There, they pull up a cage filled with oysters from an an...
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B is for bug when preschoolers make nature their classroom
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: A movement to get kids out of classrooms with walls and into the great outdoors is picking up steam. Across the U.S., nature preschools are seeing a surge. Jeffrey Brown traveled to Midland, Michigan, to find out why for our weekly...
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This Baltimore school helps girls step up for college
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: A new documentary captures the power of art to change lives. “Step” follows students from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, or BLSYW. It’s a middle and high school. As an art form, step started in Africa and became popular in…
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Will rules on investigating college sexual assault be dialed back?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Next tonight, we turn to one of the most controversial issues in higher education today, sexual assault on college campuses. The U.S. secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is considering dialing down federal guidance for how colleges and…
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What Flint’s superintendent did to protect children from lead
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: an update on how schools in Flint, Michigan, are coping with lead problems, and what the city’s school superintendent did to protect children from exposure, while making sure their education wasn’t interrupted. The district was already facing...
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The challenge of reaching hungry kids when school is out
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: For American children, summer is supposed to be a time of fun and games, but, for many, it is also a time of true need. During the school year, roughly 22 million children in this country get free and reduced-price lunch. In the summer, those…
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