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In Asheville, N.C., Summer Vacation Lasts Just A Few Weeks

Can year-round school spell the end of the "summer slide" for disadvantaged kids?

Spectators fill the seats and some sit in the grass at the 1967 convocation for Muir College.

Students From UCSD's First Class At Muir College To Graduate This Weekend

Patricia Campbell is one of two students of Muir College's 1967 class to participate in the commencement ceremony

San Diego University Raising Money To Help Human Trafficking Survivors Get A College Education

Point Loma Nazarene University's Center for Justice and Reconciliation is raising a first-of-its-kind $40,000 college scholarship for survivors of human trafficking. It's just one way the university is trying to abolish the sex-trade industry.

A banner created by San Diego Veterans for Peace reads "End the wars."

San Diego Vets Group Protests Obama's Plan To Defeat ISIS

The 35-member San Diego chapter of Veterans for Peace displayed banners Thursday afternoon that read "End the wars" and "Vets for peace" along the Sixth Avenue bridge over Interstate 5.

San Diego Council President Sherri Lightner Gets Analytical About Politics

Lightner is the first woman and the first engineer to lead the council

College Colleagues Will Face Off For Eric Cantor's Seat

Two professors at Virginia's Randolph-Macon College find themselves in an unexpected position: facing each other in November for a seat in Congress.

She's a teenager with a cellphone, surfing the Internet. And she's a Syrian refugee who works in the fields up to 14 hours a day. That's the new life of 15-year-old Fatmeh, seen here in the living room area of her family's makeshift shelter.

How A Top Student Ended Up Picking Potatoes: #15Girls

Fatmeh is one of hundreds of thousands of children who have fled Syria with their families. In Lebanon, she works in the fields up to 14 hours a day, clinging to her dream of going to college.

When The Ku Klux Klan Was Mainstream

In 1920s America the insidious Invisible Empire was not only visible, it participated in otherwise polite society.

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Marco Rubio are helping make paid family leave a major issue in this election.

Why Paid Family Leave Has Become A Major Campaign Issue

Paid family leave has never been a major topic in a presidential election — until now. Here's what got it there.

Detective Kaiama Glover in front of a Norseman bush plane, the same kind Glenn Miller boarded before his mysterious disappearance. Can this plane unlock the secret of what happened to him?

HISTORY DETECTIVES SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS: The Disappearance Of Glenn Miller

Airs Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

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