Learning Matters
- Location: New York, New York
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Learning Matters is an independent media production company focused on education. We've been telling stories and creating award-winning programs for over fifteen years. Watch our work on PBS NewsHour and online.
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A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 07:52
Most Haitian schools suffered at least some damage in the January earthquake. If they weren’t completely flattened, they’ve since been deemed “stru...
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- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 04:38
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What happens when a 24-year veteran teacher is suddenly rated "ineffective" and loses her job?
- Added: Sep 22, 2010
- Length: 13:01
The New York Times recently referred to today's youth - the "digital natives" - as "Generation Plagiarism." What do young people have to say about ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 03:43
Paul Vallas thinks the era of teaching as a career is coming to an end. What does the experiment in New Orleans tell us about what it means to be a...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 11:09
Walter L. Cohen H.S. in New Orleans, LA was once called one of the most dangerous schools in America. Not anymore.
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 08:18
Among Detroit’s many problems: a public school system so deep in debt that last year, the state took it over. Michigan’s governor hired Robert Bob...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 08:18
Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb was brought in to fix a school system that's a big mess. But who's paying his salary? Private foundations t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 05:18
One actor from the cast of the new HBO television show "Treme" is doing more than just acting.
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- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 03:57
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University of Tennessee graduate Kady Amundson’s days rarely end when school is over. At the start of her Teach for America assignment, her school ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 06:16
Meet Harvard graduate Colleston Morgan. His first two years as a Teach for America teacher were highly successful. So why did he leave the classro...
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- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 04:33
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Jeylan Erman graduated from Princeton. She enrolled in Teach for America, worked hard and really wanted to be a role model. So why didn’t she get t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:47
Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:41
Meet Yale graduate Daniel Hoffman. He entered Teach for America with high hopes, but one year later, Daniel was out of the classroom. Sometimes eve...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 06:14
Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:11
When Wendy Kopp was a college senior she had an idea: what if some of America’s top college students chose teaching over higher-paying professional...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 09:49
American students are notoriously inept when it comes to knowing about the rest of the world. But the Asia Society is trying to change that.
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 10:30
Liberal arts colleges are known for their small class sizes, individual attention, and atmosphere meant to inspire intellectual curiosity in its st...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 08:46
Should teachers be paid based on what they teach or what their student learn? Hear Randi Weingarten's answer to this question as well as her though...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 09:38
Sixteen finalists left in the Race to the Top. Competition is fierce, and the announcement of who will get the funding is rapidly approaching. How ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 03:15
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