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,

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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

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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,

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GWEN IFILL: The summer has long been a time of the year when many teens can find temporary work. But those traditions have been upended of late, as NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reports in the second of two stories on this portion of t

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GWEN IFILL: Now adoption in America in the age of the Web. A new series of investigative reports published this week is raising serious questions about how some adoptive parents who seek help online are encountering unintended consequences. Jeffrey B

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, the first in a new series we will be bring you over the coming months. We're calling this project Where Poetry Lives. Jeffrey Brown tells us about it. JEFFREY BROWN: We have a special guide traveling with us, poet laur

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: what works in the classroom, and what the U.S. can try doing differently. It's part of our continuing look at ideas being discussed and debated in the world of education.Jeffrey Brown has our conversation. JEFFREY BROW

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GWEN IFILL: Now: how some Los Angeles schools are trying to improve students' college prospects by focusing directly on their parents. One organization is committing substantial resources to teaching parents how to make higher education an important

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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

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RICK KARR: Malicious computer hackers are posing more and more of a threat to business and governmentand they will spend around 46 billion dollars this year to protect themselves from those hackers. Some computer security experts argue that in order

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HARI SREENIVASAN: We turn now to one of the more vexing economic issues for many U.S. households: the rising cost of college. A new report from the College Board, the group that owns the SAT test, finds costs at four-year public schools posted the sm

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Schools nationwide are implementing new shared standards in math and reading, but whatabout for the arts? Are those required to be taught as well? The NewsHour's special correspondent for education, John Merrow, has this report. JOHN M

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: how the American education system stacks up in global rankings and the questions surrounding that assessment. Jeffrey Brown has the story. WOMAN: You got it. You got it. Good. Good. Good. Good. JEFFREY BROWN: It's considered by m

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JUDY WOODRUFF: A student walked into a high school in suburban Denver today armed with a shotgun and shot two other students before apparently killing himself. Authorities in Arapahoe County have not identified the gunman yet, but did say he was look

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Malala Yousafzai, thank you for joining us. Tell us what inspired you, at such a young age, to start speaking out for girls' education in really such a dangerous environment. MALALA YOUSAFZAI: First of all, my father inspired me, because he's a great

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The Obama administration made a big move today on the question of school discipline policies around the country. It issued new guidelines to urge school administrators to ensure they are not being overly zealous with strict punishments

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Hari Sreenivasan looks at the promise and perils of Silicon's Valley push into a realm once dominated by government contractors. HARI SREENIVASAN: The race for the next big thing is already under way in the private sector. Companies li

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Its one of those times of the year when high school juniors aiming for college are getting ready to take the SAT or the ACT, but a large new study is challenging the value of these well-known standardized tests. Researchers looked at 3

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MEGAN THOMPSON: Sisters Beatriz and Elizabeth Vergara attend public high school in a low-income, mostly Hispanic section of northern Los Angeles. The girls are aiming for college, and would be the first in the family with higher degrees. But the Verg

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MONA ISKANDER: Every year, thousands of young people around the country celebrate this important rite ofpassage: college graduation. For generations it's been the traditional route to adulthood and success. So how did 21-year-old Sebastian Stant, a c

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