Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag
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At TEDYouth 2011, Performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.
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- -: Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag
March 21, 2012 (about 12 years ago)At TEDYouth 2011, Performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.
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- -: Making College More Affordable
December 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visit Duncan Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach, Florida to discuss the steps the administration has taken to make college more affordable and the need for Colleges to keep costs lower so the next generation of Americans can outco...
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- -: The Low Quality of Higher Education?
March 29, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/26/Debate_Education_and_the_Economy A panel of experts discusses grade inflation and other perceived problems with America's education system. Michael Lomax, President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, argues for regulating accreditation more tig...
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- -: Cultural Gaps in Personalized Health
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/26/Personalized_Health_Project_Session_1 Stephen Spielberg, PhD at Children's Mercy Hospital, discusses the roots for a number of cultural challenges facing personalized health and proposes optimistic approaches to solving them. "Healthcare advances are ...
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- -: DGA Chair O'Malley: Texas Gov. Perry Right on Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
September 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Maryland Governor and Chair of the Democratic Governor's Association Martin O'Malley believes Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a candidate for the GOP's presidential nomination, is right to offer illegal immigrants in-state tuition in Texas. ----...
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- -: Town Hall in Costa Mesa, CA
March 21, 2009 (about 15 years ago)The President held a town hall with local residents at the Orange County Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, CA on March 18, 2009. He opened with remarks about his commitment to addressing the short-term economic crisis and confronting the long-term challenges that Washington, DC has ignored for t...
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- -: Dr. Jill Biden on Good News for Higher Education
March 30, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Dr. Jill Biden, lifelong educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden, gives parents some good news about how the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act makes college more affordable. Learn more at http://www.whitehouse.gov/StudentAid.
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- -: Michael Moore on Student Debt: 'The Boot on Your Neck'
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/02/Michael_Moore_Here_Comes_Trouble Filmmaker Michael Moore argues in support of Occupy Wall Street protestors angry about high student loan payments. "What a wonderful thing to do to twenty-two-year-olds," says Moore, sarcastically. "Send them out into ...
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