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Do We Need More Accountability From Our Teachers?
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/17/Koret_Task_Force_on_No_Child_Left_Behind Hoover Institution fellows Terry Moe and Herbert Walberg discuss ongoing opposition to President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. ----- The Koret Task Force on K-12 Education discusses the No Child Left Behind Act. During a conference on education hosted by... Read more

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- -: Do We Need More Accountability From Our Teachers?

January 30, 2008 (over 16 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/17/Koret_Task_Force_on_No_Child_Left_Behind Hoover Institution fellows Terry Moe and Herbert Walberg discuss ongoing opposition to President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. ----- The Koret Task Force on K-12 Education discusses the No Child Left Behin...

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- -: A Two-Tier Proposal for Teacher Pay - Michelle Rhee

September 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/05/Transforming_the_System_An_Interview_with_Michelle_Rhee Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, discusses her proposal to establish two pay tiers for teachers in the D.C. area. She explains how the proposal met with opposition from teachers'...

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- -: Is Science 'Winning' in America?

November 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Saul_Griffith_and_Emily_Levine From evolution to daily health, is fact-based science a "winning" notion in today's America? Inventor Saul Griffith and comedian Emily Levine discuss. ----- Long Conversation, an epic relay of on...

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- -: Flip This Classroom: Khan Academy Brings Lectures Home

May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_business_conference_2011 Salman Khan describes how Khan Academy, his popular YouTube-based virtual lecture series, has "flipped" the traditional homework model for some classrooms. "The lecture now happens at home, and homework happens i...

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- -: The Importance of Education Reform

July 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)

President Obama speaks about the critical need for education reform and discusses what his Administration has done to raise standards and encourage excellence during a speech to the Urban League. July 29, 2010.

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Joe Biden: Address to NEA's 2011 Representative Assembly

July 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the NEA Assembly and delivers apowerful speech on how the current administration and him personally give importance to the role of teachers and educators in the economy and future of the country.

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Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity

February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)

Ken Robinson talks of how our modern education systems have put creativity and the arts on the back burner for quite some time.

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