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Different doesn't mean bad, and there isn't one "normal way" of being. Autism is one of those ways that brains connect and interact with the world ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 30:10
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 28:59
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In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...
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- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...
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- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...
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- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.
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- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...
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- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 29:01
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The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
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All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...
- Added: Feb 02, 2014
- Length: 28:58
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American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
When Wendy Kopp was a college senior she had an idea: what if some of America’s top college students chose teaching over higher-paying professional...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 09:49
A discussion with the founder of a self-directed learning center for teens who challenges the conventional wisdom that we must all graduate from hi...
- Added: Nov 30, 2007
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
Zoe Cordes Selbin interviews the comprehensive sex education activist Shelby Knox, of the documentary "The Education of Shelby Knox".
- Added: Aug 31, 2006
- Length: 06:56