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Today 40 million Americans are indebted for their passage to the new economy. Too poor to pay their way through college, they now owe lenders more than one trillion US dollars. They do find what jobs they can get to pay off a debt that is secured on their person. In America, even a bankrupt…
Translator: Morton Bast Reviewer: Krystian Aparta Let me tell you a story. It’s my first year as a new high school science teacher, and I’m so eager. I’m so excited, I’m pouring myself into my lesson plans. But I’m slowly coming to this horrifying realization that my students just might not be learning anything. This…
Translator: Camille Martínez Reviewer: Ivana Korom I’m thrilled to be here today. I’m actually going to share something with you I haven’t talked about probably in more than 10 years. So bear with me as I take you through this journey. When I was 22 years old, I came home from work, put a leash…
Translator: Ariana Bleau Lugo Reviewer: Maria Carolina Aguirre J. In school, the way of conveying ideas is through words. A teacher walks up to the board writes words, says words, students receive books with words, and are expected to respond to questions with words. The vast majority of teaching is done through words. But let’s…
Translator: Morton Bast Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha Like many of you, I’m one of the lucky people. I was born to a family where education was pervasive. I’m a third-generation PhD, a daughter of two academics. In my childhood, I played around in my father’s university lab. So it was taken for granted that I attend…
So a few years ago, I did something really brave, or some would say really stupid. I ran for Congress. For years, I had existed safely behind the scenes in politics as a fundraiser, as an organizer, but in my heart, I always wanted to run. The sitting congresswoman had been in my district since…
Translator: Alina Siluyanova Reviewer: Denise RQ When was the last time you had no idea what you were doing? (Laughter) OK, I’ll go first. How does that sound? A couple of years ago I decided I wanted to learn Spanish in preparation for a trip I was taking to Mexico. I know French, I thought;…
What aápleasure. What an amazing TEDx! So imagine you had an opportunity in your life to consider the question of education without looking at all of the restrictions and the complexities that come with introducing education to a country like yours. Imagine you lived in a mythical places like California, where there were no laws…
Right now there is an aspiring teacher who is working on a 60-page paper based on some age-old education theory developed by some dead education professor wondering to herself what this task that she’s engaging in has to do with what she wants to do with her life, which is be an educator, change lives,…
On the path that American children travel to adulthood, two institutions oversee the journey. The first is the one we hear a lot about: college. Some of you may remember the excitement that you felt when you first set off for college. Some of you may be in college right now and you’re feeling this…