With fresh thinking and bold ideas, TED and PBS are hosting a one-hour special with talks about the US high school dropout crisis.
On May 7 at 10pm, PBS will air the very first televised TED event, TED Talks Education. The event, filmed in New York on April 4, brings together an hour of speakers and performers with a deep-rooted passion for education, and a focus on one of the major crises affecting US education right now: kids who don’t finish high school. Students drop out for thousands of reasons. How can we think about the problem?
The first three speakers booked: Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone, plus TED favorites Bill Gates and Sir Ken Robinson — and watch for more announcements in coming weeks of dynamic teachers, speakers and performers to take the stage. The show is set to appear on PBS’ website after the air date, and we’ll let you know more soon.
TED Talks Education will be broadcast nationally in the U.S. and will be produced by WNET in conjunction with TED. The program is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Graduate Program. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking hour of television.
Want a preview? After the jump, watch Bill Gates’ fiery, data-packed talk on the US state budgeting system — which, he says, uses accounting tricks to siphon money away from schools and give it to entrenched interests.
Susan Gauvin commented on Mar 14 2013
and perhaps someone like http://drgabormate.com/ to add balance to the conversation … ?
Susan Gauvin commented on Mar 14 2013
How about https://www.facebook.com/mihaly.csikszentmihalyi?ref=ts&fref=ts,or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-Strickland/15789618980 or George Lucas ???
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Kyle Elliot commented on Jan 21 2013
Agreed with what a lot of other folks are saying leave Gates to talk about IT in education, but any more should be run by the teachers.
But it does bring focus and attention to the bigger issue, so there’s always benefit to that.
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Emily McManus commented on Jan 18 2013
Hi all! Just following up to say that your suggestions have all been passed along to the programming team as they book the show.
If you have further thoughts, and especially if you think of more speakers who can talk about the high-school dropout crisis, keep sharing them here.
Jeremiah Johnston commented on Jan 17 2013
Are we saying Bill Gates and Ken Robinson don’t know how to address the Education arena? They both seem to have a tremendous impact on Education. I agree that classroom voices need to be heard but this is the hook to get people to tune in. Fewer people would set the DVR for Sam Saunders from Stedman Elementary.
Brenda Morales commented on Jan 17 2013
No, they don’t truly know how to address the education arena. They have impact, certainly. But their (at least BIll Gates’s) emphasis on VAM are misguided at the least. Here is a critique of the Gates Foundation evaluation plan: http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2013/01/09/the-50-million-dollar-lie/
I find it interesting the Mr. Gates advocates large class sizes for public schools, while sending his own children to a private school which emphasizes “an environment that promotes relationships between teachers and students through small class sizes,” according to the school brochure. http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2014437975_danny09.html
The point is that they should not be the only people talking about education. People who actually do the work of education should also be included. From the summary, it looked as if TED was just getting the big names to get the ratings. That is what troubles me.
Brenda Morales commented on Jan 17 2013
Diane Ravitch, Marion Brady, there’s a blogger called Jersey Jazzman, not sure what his real name is.
Or better yet, why don’t you choose a panel of teachers from various types of schools (rural, suburban, urban) and make sure to include teachers of special education and ELL. Then you would have the real voice of education in America.
Anne Rowley commented on Jan 17 2013
I love your suggestions. There have been some great Ted-X Education speakers in NYC.
Emily McManus commented on Jan 17 2013
I love this idea — sharing it with the full team!
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Emily McManus commented on Jan 16 2013
Hey all — these are just the first 3 speakers booked, and we’ve got a whole hour to hear from many different voices. So send suggestions! Who should we be looking at? Who’s a teacher that inspires you?
Brenda Morales commented on Jan 16 2013
Hey TED, would you talk medicine without talking to doctors? Science without talking to scientists? Law without talking to lawyers? No? Then why on earth are you talking about education without talking to teachers??? Where is the voice of the people actually doing the job, who actually have a clue about how to teach and how to run a school?
Ben Jarvis commented on Jan 16 2013
very well said i’m so happy to have read your comment! the very reason education is so messed up in america right now is for this exact reason – we let non-teachers (such as gates and robinson, but also including parents and students) make the decisions on policy and curriculum.
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Where are the teachers?
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