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The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink

Norman Solomon | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Norman Solomon

The same U.S. news media that are conveying the preciousness of children so terribly harmed in Boston are scarcely interested in children like Guljumma.

WATCH: Students Offer Solutions To Gun Violence, Preventing School Shootings

Posted 03.19.2013 | Home

As part of a series of far-reaching gun control proposals, President Barack Obama recommended Wednesday a federal $150 million "Comprehensive School S...

One Semester Into Ohio's Reading Law, 40,000 Still Not On Par

Posted 01.07.2013 | Home

Ohio schools are one semester into its first year of the new "Third Grade Reading Guarantee" law, but some 30 percent of students -- about 40,000 stat...

Is This Education Model Replicable?

John Merrow | Posted 02.28.2013 | Home
John Merrow

Rocketship Schools -- currently seven in all -- are among the top performing low income schools in the state of California.

What I Learned From Legendary Journalist Ray Suarez: His Toughest Interviews Ever

Gillian Frew | Posted 02.10.2013 | Media
Gillian Frew

Journalists in the public eye know exactly what kinds of questions to expect because they've made careers out of fielding the same ones: What's your take on xyz current event, who will run for office in 2016, and, of course, what's the future of journalism?

New Jersey Teachers Provide Support For Young Storm Victims

Posted 11.13.2012 | Home

Hurricane Sandy devastated communities along the east coast and kept New Jersey and New York students out of school for a week or more. Families went ...

Veterans' Day Video Reports

ProPublica | Posted 01.13.2013 | Politics
ProPublica

By Mike Webb, ProPublica. Yesterday, Peter Sleeth was a guest on PBS NewsHour to discuss his ProPublica/Seattle Times investigation into how the U.S....

Would Romney Really Kill Big Bird?

Scott Lilly | Posted 12.16.2012 | Politics
Scott Lilly

What does Gov. Romney's proposal to eliminate the federal appropriation for public broadcasting actually mean for Big Bird's livelihood?

WATCH: The Full Debate

Posted 10.04.2012 | Politics

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney battled over economic issues, health care and Social Security during the first ...

Debates Should Probe Romney's Economic Insanity

Karl Frisch | Posted 11.26.2012 | Politics
Karl Frisch

Is it any wonder that Republicans have become the Party of 'no'? If they had said yes, our unemployment might be in the range of 5.5 to 6.5 percent by now and the president would be kicking Mitt Romney's rear end even more thoroughly than he is already.

PBS Climate Change Segment Draws Sharp Criticism

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 09.18.2012 | Green

A recent report from "PBS NewsHour" on climate change has drawn sharp criticism from climate groups that feel it provides a false sense of debate arou...

Taking a Page from Clarence Page

Mike Smith | Posted 11.05.2012 | Media
Mike Smith

Columnist Clarence Page was voluble in his musings about Campaign 2012. He felt the magic of four years ago was long gone and the Democrats are simply in hunker-down, re-elect the president mode.

On Early College High School and Community College Remediation

John Merrow | Posted 09.08.2012 | Home
John Merrow

I just wanted to drop in and "blog" -- it's mostly a showcasing of videos, hence it being in quotes -- about two of our recent pieces for PBS NewsHou...

Community Colleges Take Different Approach To Remediation

Posted 06.22.2012 | Home

About 1.7 million students nationwide are enrolled in remedial courses at a cost of $3 billion to U.S. taxpayers. These developmental classes -- often...

A Pot Luck Meal Of Ideas

John Merrow | Posted 07.16.2012 | Home
John Merrow

Remember pot-luck suppers, when everyone brought a dish or two? What follows is the the equivalent -- although substituting ideas for food. Because t...

NEA Has No Love For PBS

AP | Posted 06.26.2012 | Arts

NEW YORK — The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year. "Live From Linco...

Christina Wilkie

PBS Host Hit By Conservative Website For Emceeing LGBT Clinic Gala

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.19.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Gwen Ifill, the author and "PBS News Hour" correspondent, is under fire from a conservative media outlet over her decision to serve as e...

A Trifecta Of Sins

John Merrow | Posted 06.05.2012 | Home
John Merrow

In the face of this disheartening news, one has to ask, "who benefits?" I'm stumped. Certainly not children, parents and teachers.

A Tale of Three Teachers

John Merrow | Posted 05.30.2012 | Home
John Merrow

We need to make it more difficult to become a teacher, which we could do by raising standards for admission into training programs and then providing one-year apprenticeships before teachers are given their own classrooms.

Scared Sleepless

John Merrow | Posted 05.29.2012 | Home
John Merrow

"My son can't sleep at night." Why? "Because his teacher told him that he had to do well on the tests this week or she would be fired.." Scaring the sleep out of a child is surely an example of distortion and corruption. So too is firing people based on the snapshot of one day's bubble test score.

Digital Natives, Or Digital Citizens?

John Merrow | Posted 05.28.2012 | Home
John Merrow

Schools today must provide opportunities for young people to create knowledge out of the swirling clouds of information that surround them 24/7. You went to school because that's where the knowledge was stored. That was yesterday.

How the Supreme Court Aids Government-Controlled Speech

Jim Sleeper | Posted 05.25.2012 | Media
Jim Sleeper

Few of us who oppose the past century of corporate "personhood" jurisprudence would accept government censorship. But we do wonder why conservatives are so accepting of the Chinese Communist government setting up and censoring a corporation that employs American reporters.

Drowning in a Rising Tide of...

John Merrow | Posted 05.07.2012 | Home
John Merrow

The real problem is not the Constitution's limits on the federal role in education. For all its talk of public education as 'the civil rights issue of our time," this Administration, like the one before it, simply does not have a powerful vision of what genuine education might be.

Going for the Gold

John Merrow | Posted 04.16.2012 | Home
John Merrow

Who have been the primary beneficiaries of "school reform?" Duh, the for-profit companies! While consultants and think tanks have done OK, the real money has been in testing and textbooks and technology and construction.

What Do Teachers Do?

John Merrow | Posted 04.02.2012 | Home
John Merrow

I am still searching for the one right word to describe teachers today. Reviewing the candidates: competitors, policemen, social workers, surrogate parents, counselors, health care providers, nutritionists and ringmasters.