In an interview with Teacher Magazine, Bill Cosby says his highly publicized remarks about teachers were taken out of context (3:09). (November 7, 2006)
Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, talks about the importance of the arts in education and more about the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. (4:40). Read the related story. (May 23, 2006)
Maureen Wanket, a freelance writer and an English teacher in Sacramento, California, recalls how a reading of The Catcher in the Rye changed her perspective (8:01). Read the related story. (May/June, 2006)
Susan Van Kirk, a veteran educator in Monmouth, Illinois, recalls her experiences as a young high school teacher during the Viet Nam War (12:05). Read the related story. (March/April, 2006)
Writer Vaishali Honawar talks about her reporting trip to India, where she examined the national interest in mathematics education (5:38). Read the related story. (March/April, 2006)
Dennis Donoghue, a 6th grade teacher at Salisbury Elementary School in Massachusetts, recounts how a health video sparked an unexpectedly frank classroom discussion on sexuality (7:30). Read the related story. (January/February 2006.)
Writer Bess Keller discusses her assignment in Kenya, where educators are dealing an extreme lack of resources and battling the spead of AIDS (15:42). Read the related story. (September 2005)
What is to be done when facilities are falling apart and there isn’t enough money to modernize them?, ask William D. Eggers and Tiffany Dovey.
(September 25, 2007)
View a complete list of archived and upcoming webinars at our event calendar page. Past events include "Making Algebra Easier" and "Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population."
