JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: to the story of a Chicago theater where the scripts come from the real lives of the young performers. Jeffrey Brown has the story. ACTRESS: I did it. I did it. I did it. I ran away. JEFFREY BROWN: In a new play called Home/Land,...
GWEN IFILL: Beginning today, the interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans is doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. For the lower-to-moderate income students who borrow that money, the hike could cost them from $1,000 to as much as $4...
GWEN IFILL: Next: bringing opportunity to a vast hidden population of aboriginal children in India. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited one school that is trying to break the cycle of poverty on a massive scale. His report was produced i...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a coming crisis in the classroom, as more teachers exit the profession. A nonprofit organization is combating the high turnover rates by mentoring new teachers. Our story comes from Ash-har Quraishi of WTTW Chicago. ABBY MILLER, Su...
GWEN IFILL:Beginning today, the interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans is doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. For the lower-to-moderate income students who borrow that money, the hike could cost them from $1,000 to as much as $4,...
JEFFREY BROWN:Next: the training of teachers and a new report that concludes too much of that preparation is not adequate. The study was conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an independent research and advocacy group. The report look...
JEFFREY BROWN:Disaster struck the Oklahoma City area this afternoon for the second time in two days. An enormous tornado blasted whole neighborhoods in the suburb of Moore and left little but shredded wreckage in its wake. There was no immediate word...
JEFFREY BROWN:And we turn to a July 1stdeadline for interest rates on student loans and the economic consequences of growing student debt. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:Now is not the time for us to turn back on young people. JEFFREY BROWN:Flanked by studen...
JEFFREY BROWN:Disaster struck the Oklahoma City area this afternoon for the second time in two days. An enormous tornado blasted whole neighborhoods in the suburb of Moore and left little but shredded wreckage in its wake. There was no immediate word...
GWEN IFILL:The cheating scandal in Atlanta is prompting questions again about testing and whether public schools are too focused on teaching to the test. But some places are trying new approaches. The NewsHour's special correspondent for education, J...
