Lectures tagged "Classroom & Community"


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Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Michael Sandel
November 8, 2009
00:55:00
Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action" Students discuss the issue of affirmative action and college admissions. Is it "just" for schools to consider race and ethnicity as a factor in admissions? Does it violate individual rights?
Digital Inclusion
Iqbal Quadir
October 24, 2009
00:32:34
Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing count
Arthur: When a Child Knows Someone with Cancer
Paula Rauch
October 18, 2009
00:59:16
Experts in the field of pediatric health and education screen and discuss the Arthur episode “The Great MacGrady".
Hollowing Out the Middle: Rural Brain Drain
Patrick J. Carr
October 14, 2009
01:22:13
Sociology professor Patrick J. Carr discusses Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means For America.
Struggle for Unity: Boston Women and School Suffrage
Polly Kaufman
March 24, 2009
00:36:06
Polly Kaufman explains how Boston suffrage leaders worked to keep the goal of achieving full suffrage in the forefront despite controversies that developed among women based on societal and ethnic differences.
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Yes We Can: Closing the Achievement Gaps
Jane Waldfogel
March 10, 2009
01:23:00
The authors of three recent books address how closing racial achievement gaps is indeed possible.
Audio-only
Educating for Human Rights and Global Competency
Felisa Tibbitts
February 10, 2009
01:38:57
Felisa Tibbitts, of Human Rights Education Associates, and Ed Gragert, of the International Educational Resource Network (iEARN), examine the relationship of Human Rights Education and Global Competen
Poverty and Social Justice Challenges in the US: Part II
Marian Wright Edelman
February 8, 2009
00:45:07
Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, discuss the social, economic, and educational challenges facing this country. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert moderates.