Curated Video
Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders changed the way people thought of themselves...
TED Talks
Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and...
TED Talks
Anindya Kundu: The "opportunity gap" in US public education -- and how to close it
How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep...
TED Talks
Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Crash Course
Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders changed the way people thought of themselves...
Crash Course
Markets, Efficiency, and Price Signals: Crash Course Economics
Adriene and Jacob teach you all about markets. So, in free market(ish) economies like the United States and most of the world, markets are a big deal. Markets work to produce the stuff that consumers want, and that society needs. Today...
Wonderscape
Robert Smalls: A Legacy of Leadership and Advocacy
Explore the post-war achievements of Robert Smalls, from serving the Freedmen's Bureau to shaping political change during Reconstruction. Learn about his contributions to public transportation integration, his role in founding the South...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider - The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual
"The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual," authored by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider, delves into the contentious nature of public education debates in the United States. The book aims to explain why there has...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Cara Fitzpatrick - The Death of Public School
Cara Fitzpatrick is a Story Editor for Chalkbeat National and New York. She covered education at newspapers in Florida and won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2016 for a series about school segregation. The series also was...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy MacLean -Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose most recent book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, has been described by Publishers Weekly as “a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider - A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Jennifer Berkshire grew up in the Midwest, and while she has long since been transplanted to the East Coast, she will forever be a Heartlander at heart. She discovered her love for storytelling while covering a series of bitter labor...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Merrow - Addicted to Reform
John Merrow began his career as an education reporter with National Public Radio in 1974 and recently stepped down as President of Learning Matters, a non-profit production company in New York City. In 2012 he became the first journalist...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yohuru Williams - Preserving Public Education
Described in Diverse Issues in Higher Education as “one of the most exciting scholars of his generation,” Dr. Yohuru Williams is the History Department Chair and the Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Reign of Error
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received more that 17 million hits in 30 months. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Growth Slowdown is Coming
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital. Peter Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Measuring the Danger of Segregation
An 1869 study incorrectly stated that black Union soldiers had lower lung capacity than white soldiers. 150 years later, this same study is impacting the health and disability diagnosis of black patients. Structural segregation is still...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: NASA and the Texas Economy
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Glenn Hegar talks about managing finances for the Lone Star State and for its citizens. Hegar describes the economic impact of NASA on the state of Texas based on a report drafted by the Comptroller's...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael J. Hynes - Eight Women Whose Works and Words Inspire Me
Dr. Michael Hynes is the Superintendent of Schools for the Patchogue Medford School District. Prior to working in Patchogue-Medford, Dr. Hynes served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Shelter Island School District, the Assistant...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
College Now
Why are we creating an education shortage? The value of going to college and learning critical thinking skills is on the rise, but access is shrinking. Professor David Deming warns that if we don't put some serious work into fixing these...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Sugrue: To Understand Race and Economics in America, Study Detroit
NYU historian Professor Thomas Sugrue, addressing the Institute’s conference on race and economics, makes the case that in Detroit’s history scholars will find the story of many of America’s industrial cities. Credits: Matthew Kulvicki,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
What Caused Detroit’s Demise?
Historian Prof. Thomas Sugrue offers a critique of the conventional wisdom that roots the city’s fate in the racial tension of the tumultuous ‘60s and the decline of the auto industry. Credits: Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yohuru Williams - Rethinking School Reform
Described in Diverse Issues in Higher Education as “one of the most exciting scholars of his generation,” Dr. Yohuru Williams is the History Department Chair and the Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He...
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
Ricardo Rosa - Equity and Justice in Education
Dr. Ricardo Rosa is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Rosa is the Co-Author of Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control: Language Deception and Digital...