Tag Archives: Education policy — U.S.
Innovative Learning
Benno Schmidt, Jr., former president of Yale University, discusses the Edison Project, a private educational initiative. At the time of this interview, Schmidt was a Trustee of the National Humanities Center. In the second segment [19:00] Richard Schramm, director of … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Schmidt, Benno C., Schramm, Richard
Tagged Edison Project, Education -- U.S., Education policy -- U.S., Education standards -- U.S., Public education, teaching
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Gifted and Talented Education
How does American education treat gifted and talented students? Who defines them, and to what educational and social ends? What should parents and students know about gifted and talented education? These questions are addressed by Denis Doyle, James Gallagher, and Gail Huffman. … Continue reading
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Tagged Education policy -- U.S., Education standards -- U.S., Gifted students
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(1) Current Black American Literature; (2) Philosophy and Public Policy, Part 3 of 7: Education and Politics
Darwin Turner discusses African American literature with Kent Mullikin. Turner speaks about black writers’ reactions in the face of criticism, forms of creative writing by black authors, and black authors’ working relationships with publishers. In the second segment (14:30), the series on … Continue reading
Posted in Bennett, William J., Cahn, Steven, Episodes, Mullikin, Kent, Rachels, James, Sher, George, Turner, Darwin
Tagged Education policy -- U.S., Philosophy, Writers - African-American
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