TED stands for technology, entertainment and design.
Each year, TED conferences bring together the world's most
innovative and thought-provoking doers and thinkers. These
visionaries are given a challenge: Give the talk of their
life in 18 minutes.
Join host Alison Stewart for some of those TED talks.
Ideas worth spreading -- it's the TED radio hour from NPR...
coming up in April Thursdays at 1pm and 7pm.
Women working full-time in the United States earn seventy-seven percent, on average, of what men earn, a gap of twenty-three percent. Governor Cuomo has made equal pay for women a priority on his legislative agenda, an effort which many New Yorkers support.
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Adults in the White House, Congress, think tanks, principals’ offices, teachers’ unions, and other Very Important Positions are fighting over how to educate kids. But what do teenagers think about the education we’re getting?
This hour, we take you back to school – public high school, to be precise.
Teenagers share our stories, in our words.
We dissect school standards that are too hard, or too easy. We get educated in an unequal public school system, and make decisions for what comes next after high school.
Starting with eviction of farmers during World War II to make way for storage of munitions, through the suspected presence of nuclear weapons, to the accident of nature that forced it to become a wildlife refuge, the Seneca Army Depot has been a commanding and often secretive presence in the Finger Lakes. Seneca County Historian Walter Gable and Carolyn Zogg, director of the Seneca Falls Historical Society, tell about their new history of this corner of the homefront.
Around the world, women are inspiring each other to envision a world where women lead, but quite differently. Women are spontaneously redefining power and shaping it in novel ways.
According to social justice advocate Gloria Feldt and community advocate Reinette Senum, leadership begins inside – with “power to” rather than “power over.” How is the leadership of women benefitting us all? Listen to the piece here.
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History is a tale told by the winners. How then can we reclaim the voices of those who have been historically written out - silenced through the ages? Perhaps as women write “herstory” into history, we’ll see clearly the eternal power, brilliance and unique value of women’s contributions.
Join media innovator Jensine Larsen and feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner as they share the emerging landscape of an inclusive, sustainable and just society at whose heart is the leadership of women. Listen to this piece Here
Every year, more than a million kids drop out of school. Without a diploma, they will have a tough time succeeding. But the problem starts much earlier than high school. This hour, we'll ask the big questions: Why are students dropping out? What's the cost? And, what works to keep them in school and graduate? We’ll talk to Arne Duncan, the education secretary in charge of turning around the problem. And we'll look at the dropout crisis through the eyes of the kids themselves.
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This special is hosted by former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook, now host of her own blog DecodeDC.
Many counties across New York are considering selling county-run nursing homes to private buyers in an effort to trim the budget. How will this impact our aging population?
Award-winning NPR Reporter Nancy Solomon takes you inside a school to hear a discussion on race in the classroom. Listen as students try to explain what went wrong with their education. Join her at the kitchen table with black middle-class parents who thought that a move to the suburbs would ensure school success. Find out how the school's best teachers motivate their students. Be a fly on the wall in the busy dean's office where where kids with discipline problems land.
Bygone Binghamton: Remembering People and Places of the Past is a new and encyclopedic two-volume review of the tremendous (IBM, EJ, the Arlington Hotel), the temporary (“Masty Huba”, Kiddieland) and the trivial (Slab Bubble Gum) of the Triple Cities in the 20th century. Principal author Jack Edward Shay and collaborators Betty Casey and Tom Townsend tell about everything that could be packed into 1,313 pages.
