Education Podcast with John Merrow | PBS

Peekskill, New York is one of the many small cities across the country where the recession is making a huge impact on education. In this ...

The campaign both for and against California's Proposition 8 was heated and costly (only the Presidential campaign cost more). Among other ...

Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education. A MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius,” she founded Central Park ...

Paul Vallas talks about his successes, challenges and strategies for making change in the New Orleans Recovery School District. AUDIO

Michelle Rhee talks with John Merrow about her controversial first year as DC Public Schools Chancellor and what she has planned for year ...

Are alternatively certified teachers changing the face of teaching in the New Orleans’ Recovery School District? It seems like it: nearly ...

"Democracy at Risk" is a new report that documents where we are with education today, and it’s not good news. Last week we attended an ...

If you were put in charge of one of the worst school districts in the country would you give high school students free laptops? Well, ...

George Parker, the president of the teachers’ union in Washington D.C., is now negotiating a new contract with School Chancellor Michelle ...

The Federal law known as No Child Left Behind has generated a massive amount of testing data. But is the data useful in the classroom? Jay ...

5th grade teacher Betsy Walter sees her students making progress – but often, tests required by the federal law known as No Child Left ...

Every Spring, the state teachers of the year travel to Washington to meet the President. But this year, they planned an event of their own ...