| Raising graduation rates, one expectation at a time Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:18 PM PST ![Raising graduation rates, one expectation at a time]( "Raising graduation rates, one expectation at a time") The graduation rate for American high school students reached a record high in 2016, according to a new federal report. Over five years, the graduation rate has steadily risen from 79 percent to 84 percent. Other measures of student achievement, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, do not indicate as much progress or even show a decline in certain measures.
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| In Alabama, Republican women split sharply over Roy Moore Posted: 05 Dec 2017 11:55 AM PST ![In Alabama, Republican women split sharply over Roy Moore]( "In Alabama, Republican women split sharply over Roy Moore") When voters head to the polls next week in Alabama's high-stakes Senate race, one question will be key: Will suburban Republican women stick with their party's chosen candidate, Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s? Female voters in well-to-do suburbs like Mountain Brook, outside of Birmingham, could make the difference in the Dec. 12 special election that's too close – and too unusual – to call, observers say. Normally, Alabama is reliably Republican.
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| In Jordan, an empowering solution for UN-run refugee camps Posted: 05 Dec 2017 09:49 AM PST ![In Jordan, an empowering solution for UN-run refugee camps]( "In Jordan, an empowering solution for UN-run refugee camps") In Jordan, the UN and its partners have hooked up the first solar-powered refugee camps in the world – a test as to whether the international aid community can step beyond the emergency relief approach and provide sustainable solutions that benefit refugees, host communities, and the environment long after each crisis ends. Jordan, which imports 98 percent of its energy needs, has struggled to manage the cost of the country's 1.3 million Syrian refugees.
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| Hope springs anew with Zimbabwean newborns Posted: 05 Dec 2017 08:58 AM PST ![Hope springs anew with Zimbabwean newborns]( "Hope springs anew with Zimbabwean newborns") In her modest home on the outskirts of Zimbabwe's capital, she waddled across the bedroom to where she kept the small bag she'd packed weeks before. Fifteen miles to the South, in the scrappy dormitory town of Chitungwiza, Moreblessing Mutsakani had already arrived at the labor ward of the town's hospital. In Mbare, Alfred left his wife at the hospital gate and returned home to wait.
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