Meet five New York high school students with fascinating stories
No television special exploring ideas on improving education in the United States would be complete without hearing from students themselves...
Playlist: 7 education ideas from unlikely places
Geoffrey Canada gives a very interesting analogy in today’s TED Talk: He compares the current education system in the United States to...
Join the conversation about #TEDTalksEd
Want to talk about education? Inspired by TED Talks Education, our one-hour TV special that aired on PBS night, and this morning’s bat...
Op-Ed: Moving beyond dropout statistics and toward solutions
By Patricia Harrison When I attended the taping of TED Talks Education last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I knew I was witnessing ...
The story behind my new TED Talk: Giving teachers what they deserve
By Bill Gates I spend a lot of my time working to help improve America’s schools. I’m also a big fan of TED Talks. So when TED’s Chris Ander...
7 tech tools now available in the classroom, for better or worse
The analog-to-digital shift that has seen e-readers booting out books, smartphones trumping landlines and tablets making desktops look fuddy...
Why a good education benefits us all — even if you’re long past being a student
Timothy Bartik says that investing in early childhood education is not just good for the children involved — but for communities as a ...
A new playlist from Sir Ken Robinson, the most-watched speaker on TED.com
Sir Ken Robinson is not just an amazing orator — he is the most-viewed speaker on TED.com. His three talks have been viewed an astound...
TED Weekends emphasizes the importance of the student-teacher relationship
As the daughter and granddaughter of educators, teaching is in Rita Pierson’s blood. In this talk — a teaser of next Tuesday’s TED Tal...