Posted: Aug 26th, 2010 | Comments: 2
Celebration of Teaching & Learning 2010: Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah conducts a conversation with a group of outstanding urban high school students and invites them to share their perspectives on school, community, peers, family, and ...
Together artist and astrobiologist construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed by Michael Joaquin Grey and inspired by biological and social networks.
For the ...
Posted: May 26th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Taped at Temple Israel, May 13, 2009
Speakers:
Lynne Sharon Schwartz: Author: Not Now, Voyager
running time: 1 hour 4 minutes
Lynne Sharon Schwartz in Not Now, Voyager presents ...
Posted: Jun 25th, 2009 | Comments: 0
Grading New York City’s Schools
Isn’t receiving a grade of an F bad thing? In 2006 New York City--the largest school district in the United States--adopted a progress report system grading city schools from A ...
Posted: Nov 11th, 2008 | Comments: 2
Linda Nochlin on the Goals of Art Criticism
The goals of art history differ from the goals of art criticism. Professor Linda Nochlin, art historian and Professor of Modern Art at New York University, addresses these ...
Posted: Nov 10th, 2008 | Comments: 0
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Historians have recently uncovered the Hemings family, who had close blood ties with President Thomas Jefferson’s family. Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at New York Law School ...
Posted: Oct 14th, 2008 | Comments: 1
James Madison and the Constitution
He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, the Father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, a founder of his party, and one of the first presidents ...
Posted: Oct 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 1
Michael Bérubé: Academic Freedom and its Discontents
Michael Bérubé explores conservative complaints about liberal “bias” at America’s universities and the fate of the liberal-arts education. Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Professor in English Literature and Science, ...
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Breaking Ground with Bill T. Jones: Harlem, Cultural Capital: Naming The Future
What is the future of Harlem as a cultural capital? Bill T. Jones moderates the third in Breaking Ground, a series of Harlem community dialogues. Bill T. Jones ...
Posted: Jun 18th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Can Mayoral Control Fix Broken Urban School Districts?
Five years ago, the state control of the school system over to Mayor Bloomberg. Soon they must decide whether to extend that power to future administrations. What is the track ...
Posted: Mar 25th, 2008 | Comments: 0
