MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In academia, many professors remain working and teaching long past traditional retirement age, leaving younger potential professors shut out from highly coveted full-time, tenured positions. As part of a series on older workers, PBS NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how institutions are negotiating with aging faculty.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1957, nine black students entered Little Rock's Central High School, marking a critical moment in the efforts to desegregate the nation's schools. Seven of the "Little Rock Nine" recall their experiences in this 2007 interview with PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Brain research done after the death at 28 of Derek Boogaard, a National Hockey League player, found that he had a degenerative condition similar to Alzheimer's caused by repeated head trauma. PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown speaks with New York Times reporter John Branch and Dr. Robert Cantu for more on the issues raised by the death.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
National literacy program Reach Out and Read reaches kids in a place where they are almost guaranteed to visit: the doctor's office. PBS NewsHour correspondent John Merrow meets a new breed of pediatrician - part doctor, part teacher - who help parents share books with their children to improve and encourage cognitive development.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ireland was hit hard during the global recession, suffering dramatic job losses and a mass exodus of skilled workers. Though the Irish are still cautious, a recovery is being driven by locally grown businesses, startups and new takes on heritage industries. PBS NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez reports from Dublin on pioneering businesses sprouting up.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Two 2011 studies on cancer: 1) the prospects for treating people with advanced cases of deadly skin cancer, and 2) a new breast cancer drug. PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Dr. George Sledge of The American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Armed with $500 worth of beans, two women founded a non-profit group in Denver to empower impoverished women by teaching them workplace skills and providing jobs to the chronically homeless and unemployed. PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An effort to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease was halted after data showed that a new drug was doing more harm than good. PBS NewsHour correspondent Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Dr. Paul Aisen of the University of California, San Diego.