TED teams up with PBS to talk about the high school dropout crisis
With fresh thinking and bold ideas, TED and PBS are hosting a one-hour special with talks about the US high school dropout crisis. On May 7 ...
Meet the fathers and daughters who danced the night away in a prison
[ted id=1646]For a teenage girl, few things are more awkward than developing a good relationship with her father. This is something that Ang...
10 great children’s books destined to become classics
[ted id=1644 width=560 height=315]Jarrett J. Krosoczka — the man behind the Lunch Lady crime-fighting graphic novel series — cre...
The best of TED-Ed: How math guides ships at sea
You learn something new every day. This is especially true if you watch TED-Ed lessons, which use animation to bring to life topics as varie...
The best of TED-Ed: The art of the metaphor
The adage goes: You learn something new every day. This is especially true if you watch TED-Ed lessons, which bring to life educational topi...
The best of TED-Ed: How to rethink thinking
The adage goes: You learn something new every day. This is especially true if you watch TED-Ed lessons, which bring to life educational topi...
The power of design-based education: A Q&A with TED ebook author Emily Pilloton
Designer Emily Pilloton believes that education not only enriches the mind but the heart as well. And, in the best cases, it can also enhanc...
TED Weekends explores creative intelligence
It was one of the original six talks posted on TED.com and it has, over the years, become our most-watched video with 13.5 million views. Si...
8 highly unusual schools
At TEDGlobal, educator Eddie Obeng highlighted a disconcerting thought — that the answers we learned in school aren’t necessarily true...