GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight, to the latest in our series on high school dropouts, this time through the words of the bard, William Shakespeare. Nearly half of all students experience some sort of bullying. A University of Virginia study last year show...
HARI SREENIVASAN:Ahead of last week's ruling, Republican Gov. Mike Pence rallied students and parents at the state legislature in Indianapolis in support of the voucher program. In 2011, education correspondent John Tulenko visited Indiana soon after...
JEFFREY BROWN:The debate over the city of Chicago's plan to close dozens of public schools intensified today. Public school officials cited a billion-dollar deficit and under enrollment as the driving factors behind the move. But critics claim it wil...
RAY SUAREZ:Now a different perspective on guns and public safety from young people who participate in the NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs program. And again to Hari Sreenivasan. HARI SREENIVASAN:We brought together high school students from around...
JEFFREY BROWN:And now to another in our series on the nation's high school dropout crisis, told this time through a different lens. Good teachers can help keep kids in school, but how can schools hold on to their top teachers? Hari is back with a rep...
MARGARET WARNER:The plan to triple college tuition fees is part of a broad budget rebalancing program now being put in place by Britain's Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, and his coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats. The measure passed...
JUDY WOODRUFF:According toa report out today from the NAACP, states are spending increasingly large sums of money on prisons, at the expense of public education. Its research shows states spend more than $50 billion annually on government-run correct...
JEFFREY BROWN: Now, how educators in Chicago are working to give lower-income students a leg up in the pre-kindergarten years and boost their prospects for life. The NewsHour's special correspondent for education, John Merrow, has the story. WOMAN: A...
JUDY WOODRUFF:Finally tonight: teacher-driven success stories in the classroom. That's the focus of tonight's edition of the PBS program Need to Know.This excerpt tells the story of an academic transformation that began with a gym teacher. The corres...
JEFFREY BROWN:Now, assessing the value of a college education. It's an old question being debated anew in these difficult economic times. We taped our discussion yesterday and began with some background. It's the time of year for happy graduates and...