Lectures tagged "Literacy & Testing"


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John Banville: The Infinites
John Banville
February 23, 2010
00:47:52
Booker Prize--winning novelist John Banville reads from his new book The Infinities. On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying.
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
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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.
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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.
Poverty and Social Justice Challenges in the US: Part I
Marian Wright Edelman
February 8, 2009
00:44:48
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.
Bernie Schein: If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom
Bernie Schein
January 13, 2009
01:14:00
Bucking traditional belief that education should be impersonal, objective and formal, Bernie Schein argues that getting personal is the only way to make magic happen in school. A veteran of the classroom and a three-time principal, Schein has spent over 40 years studying how students learn.
Early Childhood Assesment: Should We Test Preschoolers?
Rosemary Chalk
December 2, 2008
01:31:30
Education experts discuss the increased use of formal testing for preschool aged-children.