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  • Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell perform on Mountain Stage.
    Jason Isbell On Mountain Stage
    The former member of Drive-By Truckers takes to West Virginia's most famous stage with his wife (singer and fiddler Amanda Shires) and his band The 400 Unit. Hear Isbell perform six songs.
  • Second-grade teacher Vickie Boudouris goes over a worksheet in an English-learner summer school class at the Cordova Villa Elementary School in June, in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Under Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget, California schools will receive an additional $3.6 billion this year, with much of it targeted to the neediest students.
    California Upends School Funding To Give Poor Kids A Boost
    In a new approach, California is sending billions more to districts that serve disadvantaged students. Now, those districts have to figure out what works best to improve achievement.
  • Earth Beat, August 11
    Music from around the map. For over a decade now, KRVS has devoted its Sunday evenings to World Music with this program as one of that evening's…
  • Powwow Party Flub Leads To Fashion Line
    When the design company Paul Frank threw a powwow themed party, a lot of people were offended. But rather than just issue an apology, the company teamed up with Native American designers for a new line. Guest host Celeste Headlee finds out more.
  • New York Police Department officers monitor a march against stop-and-frisk tactics used by police on Feb. 23 in New York City.
    Judge Rules NYPD's Stop-And-Frisk Tactics Violate Rights
    In eight years, New York police made 4.4 million stops. Eighty-percent of the people stopped were minorities, and nine out of 10 times they were not charged with a crime. The judge has appointed an independent monitor to oversee the program.
  • Bike ambulance driver Grace Kakyo transports a patient in northern Uganda.
    In Rural Uganda, Homemade Bikes Make The Best Ambulances
    A Ugandan who has studied engineering in the U.S. is working to solve medical transportation problems in his homeland. A nonprofit he founded is helping villagers build bicycle ambulances from scrap metal.
  • Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" vehicle.
    After Much Hype, Elon Musk Unveils His High-Speed 'Hyperloop'
    There hasn't been this much hype for a new technological advancement since the Segway was unveiled in 2001. Musk says his vehicle could make a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes.
  • A Bangladeshi woman cries on Aug. 2 at the site of Rana Plaza building collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building came crashing down in April, the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment industry.
    Bangladesh Textile Exports Surge; Another Factory Worker Dies
    The country's garment industry is still going strong despite the building collapse in April. But the latest death underscores the human toll of the tragedy that has claimed more than 1,100 lives.
  • A promotional image from Renew shows one of its recycling/advertising kiosks in London. City officials asked the company to stop recording data about the phones of passing pedestrians.
    London Puts Stop To Sidewalk Bins That Track Cellphones
    The Renew company has been asked to cease tracking the cellphones of pedestrians who pass its recycling bins, which also double as kiosks showing video advertisements. The bins logged data about any Wi-Fi-enabled device that passed within range.
  • Harpestry, August 11
    An eclectic mix of music of the harp from the very beginnings of written music to pieces by contemporary composers. Harps have been incorporated into the…
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