Learning Matters

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Learning Matters is an independent media production company focused on education. We've been telling stories and creating award-winning programs for over fifteen years.  Watch our work on PBS NewsHour and online.

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This series follows Paul Vallas through his first year as Superintendent as he charges forward to make inroads against obstacles that have long plagued New Orleans? schools.

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While our country is on the eve of electing a new leader, our nation?s education system is in crisis. What should our next President do to fix it? We posed that question to educators, students, parents and policy makers and created our ?Education Advice to the Next American President? podcast series.

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This series follows Michelle Rhee's attempts to reform one of the most challenged school districts in America--Washington, DC. Can Rhee provide a model of reform for the entire country, delivering on her promise of an excellent education for every child?

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Nearly ten months after Haiti's devastating earthquake that killed thousands and left 1.5 million homeless, not much has improved. But people are working to change that.

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We're kicking off our campaign with diverse points of view from people who are working hard to change U.S. education. Listen to what they have to say and then submit your own advice at http://edadvicefornextpres.org.

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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, it dealt a massive blow to an already struggling school system. This series follows Paul Vallas through his first year as Superintendent as he charges forward to make inroads against obstacles that have long plagued New Orleans’ schools.

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The "Race to the Top" competition is unlike any education reform effort in U.S. history. This series of reports covers the past and present of school funding by government.

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What is it actually like for young Teach for America corps members, thrust into a classroom after eight weeks of training? What motivates them to teach, and what will keep them in schools after their two-year commitment ends? And is, as a recent study asks, Teach for America accomplishing its goal of creating lifetime civil servants? This series explores those questions. Over the course of two years, Learning Matters producers followed 7 Teach for America recruits as they fulfilled their assignments in New Orleans.

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What is it actually like for young Teach for America corps members, thrust into a classroom after eight weeks of training?

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What is it actually like for young Teach for America corps members, thrust into a classroom after eight weeks of training?


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Bob Compton is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur whose documentary film, 2 Million Minutes, takes a look at how six high school students from U...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
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Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education. A MacArthur Foundation ?Genius,? she founded Central Park East Elementa...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 10:53
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A short piece of advice for the next president from the Educational Trust's Amy Wilkins.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Barbara O'Brien,the Lt. Governor of Colorado and co-chair of the P-20 Education Council.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:25
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Ben Jackson, an English teacher from Denver, Colorado.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
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Paul Vallas talks to John Merrow about his successes, challenges and strategies for making change in the New Orleans Recovery School District.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 18:58
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Urban education expert Michael Casserly tells John Merrow why Superintendent Paul Vallas deserves an A- for his first year in New Orleans.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 09:56
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Michelle Rhee has the full support of DC Mayor Adrian Fenty in her quest to overhaul the DC Public School System. What do DC parents, community act...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 16:22
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George Parker, president of Washington DC's Teachers Union shares some astonishing confessions about the lack of accountability in the union and ho...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 13:13
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Michelle Rhee talks with John Merrow about her controversial first year as DC public school's chancellor and what she has planned for year two.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 16:19