TED Talks
TED: Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope | Bill Strickland
Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships.
TED Talks
Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules
What if your job didn't control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to how workers report their vacation days (they don't have to). It's a...
Crash Course
Education In Society: Crash Course Sociology
Today we’ll explore the history of education as a social institution, with a specific focus on how the US organizes its educational system. We’ll look at education through the lenses of some sociological paradigms: structural...
Curated Video
The United States Government
Dr. Forrester describes some of the goods and services that our government provides. She explains the ways that the government receives money, and how the government must decide how best to spend the money.
Curated Video
Becoming a Historian
Five accomplished historians describe how specific personal experiences were crucial in triggering their interest in history and inspired them to become historians. Featured are: David Cannadine (Princeton University), Linda Colley...
Curated Video
A Mainstream Tale
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) describes her experience as a hard of hearing child being placed in a local public school and the effect that it had on her.
Curated Video
King Arthur and The Kinks
Historian Jay Rubenstein (Tennessee) reveals how he became a medievalist.
Curated Video
Major Powers of Local Governments
Major Powers of Local Governments identifies the powers reserved to local communities by reviewing major powers of local governments.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Evans Odei - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Ghana
Mathematics teacher Evans Odei from Achimota Senior High, Greater Accra, Ghana, has been teaching for 20 years with the Ghana Education Service, falling in love with the profession while at teacher training college. After teaching at...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Samuel Abrams The Supreme Court and Our Schools
Samuel E. Abrams is the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was previously a high school teacher of economics and history for eighteen years. His recent...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Veronica Pereyra - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Peru
Veronica Pereyra is a Technology teacher at Colegio America de Callao in Lima, Peru. She also teaches Robotics.
Curated Video
SCHOOL | Learn English Vocabulary | British Culture
Join me, Anna English, as we discover school life in the UK. Learn the vocabulary associated with school. If there are any topic you would like me to cover then please let me know in the comments section.
All Ears English
Group Conversation: Are There Valid Alternatives to “Normal” School?
Group Conversation: Are There Valid Alternatives to “Normal” School?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ben Justice - Religion, Democracy and the American Public School
Dr. Justice is a historian who studies American education. He is Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration. His research is wide-ranging, from colonial times to present, engaging a variety of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jason Stanley - Education vs Indoctrination
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also been a Professor at the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Shulamith Chernoff - Early Childhood Education
Shulamith Chernoff was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Teacher’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as Columbia University. Deeply influenced by her mother , a linguiist and publisher, and her father, a...
Intelligence Squared
Are independent schools a societal problem?
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-sem...IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
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Closed Public School
Closed Public School on November 13, 2011 in Washington, DC (Footage by Getty Images)
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Closed Public School
Closed Public School on November 13, 2011 in Washington , DC (Footage by Getty Images)
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Rowers near lake side, Eton College Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, UK. 2007; short sequence.
Rowers near lake side, Eton College Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, UK. 2007; short sequence.
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Getting boats ready and putting on water, Eton College Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, UK. 2007; short sequence.
Getting boats ready and putting on water, Eton College Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, UK. 2007; short sequence.
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Single rower and team rowing past, Eton College Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, UK 2007; short sequence.
Single rower and team rowing past, Eton College Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, UK 2007; short sequence.
British Movietone
ETON'S ST. ANDREW'S MUD BATTLE
The annual Wall Game is played at Eton College on St. Andrew's Day. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
Curated Video
Newsy Investigation: Schools Lack Clear Protocols For COVID-19 Updates
Newsy found issues in 33 states where parents are struggling to get updated information from their children's school districts.