Judy Woodruff: Next- an update from Puerto Rico. Nearly four months after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island in late September, as Jeffrey Brown explores, the return to anything like normal life for most residents has been agonizingly slow. Jeffrey B...
JEFFREY BROWN: And next: a hard-lived life amid the sound, success and sorrow of rock 'n roll. MAN: One, two, one, two, three. JEFFREY BROWN: From the bench behind his Hammond B-3 organ, Gregg Allman has been belting out the rock 'n roll blues for mo...
JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, putting a price on the value of good teachers. A large and new study addresses just that. Ray Suarez has the story. RAY SUAREZ: The debate over testing in schools, and whether students' scores adequately reflect a...
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight: America's dropout crisis. Each year, approximately one million students drop out of high school. That's roughly 7,000 every day. Tonight, the NewsHour kicks off American Graduate week, where we will go inside the nation's...
GWEN IFILL: Next, two education stories. The first is about whether students are ready for college and what the SATs tell us. Ray Suarez has that. RAY SUAREZ: The latest scores are out for the high school class of 2012, the new freshmen starting work...
GWEN IFILL: Now, to another of our American Graduate reports. This week, the NewsHour is offering a series of stories and interviews about the nation's high school dropout crisis. Ray Suarez talks with the nation's top teacher. RAY SUAREZ: How do you...
JEFFREY BROWN: And we head back to Chicago and the national spotlight focused on a teachers strike in the nation's third largest school system. Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day as contract talks resumed. The union spokeswoman...
JEFFREY BROWN: We have heard much about education reform in recent years, and again in the political conventions that just ended. In Chicago, the issue and fight has spilled into the streets. Hours after a midnight deadline passed, Chicago public sch...
JEFFREY BROWN: Andand we return to the Penn State story with a wider perspective on what's happened and what should be taken from it. For that, we're joined by Teresa Huizar, executive director of the National Children's Alliance, which works with gr...
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