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Neil Shapiro
The new WNET president closes the two-day Teaching & Learning Celebration, inviting teachers to return in March 2009.
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"Town Hall" panel
PBS journalist Maria Hinojosa moderates the "Town Hall" panel March 8. To her right:...
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A teacher's fervent plea
She begs New York official Johanna Duncan-Poitier to ease the load of formal evaluations that teachers are required to do.
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Michael John Carley of GRASP
A spokesman for people with Asperger syndrome discusses the autistic spectrum, which runs from...
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Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx
Carter wanted to be the female Spike Lee but instead came home from college and began...
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Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx
The Teaching & Learning Celebration speaker led a campaign to turn wasted riverfront land into a...
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Class project make them winners
A class from Denton Avenue Elementary School in New Hyde Park, Long Island, were a winner in a...
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"21st Century Skills" advocate Ken Kay
Skills such as critical thinking are essential for more and more jobs, says the president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
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Little Rock teacher Katherine Wright Knight
She's been trying to teach thinking and communicating skills for years, she said, but the Arkansas curriculum emphasizes memorization of facts.
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Johanna Duncan-Poitier, state ed official
The senior deputy commissioner of education, speaking in the "Town Hall Meeting" on March...
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Sign-language interpreting for whales
Humpback whales sing out in a clip from one of Jean-Michel Cousteau's PBS films, which he screened at the conference.
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Forum on school effectiveness
Roy Romer, former Colorado governor and a leader of the school improvement campaign Ed in '08, takes...
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Gov. Spitzer before his life changed
Eliot Spitzer joins the March 7 panel "Where We Stand: America's Schools in the...
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Snook upstages his creator
Snook the sloth, star of PBS's It's a Big, Big World environmental show for kids, finds things to...
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Jean-Michel Cousteau
The PBS series host and son of Jacques ties together the phenomena of global warming, cooling...
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Gov. Romer on Judy Woodruff's panel
A onetime school superintendent, Romer argues for longer school days and years and other...
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