That is much more intentional to help adults meet that developmental needs of children, it is important but anybody see in the wire on hbo . Great show. Maybe the best show ever. Truly. Lots of people say that but the reason i love that show there is lots of compelling characters but the primary character are the systems that are interacting in the city of baltimore and holding everybody prisoner the drug trade, public schools, and media, municipal government government, and police. We primarily see the way you can never hope to address education without paying attention to these other things. To the extent that we the people start to demand and hold elected officials more accountable to a systematic policy approach, we will be struggling for a while. That is the biggest thing to say as a final point but in that sense there is no short cuts. We cannot fix Public Education 11 added for willis and in poverty. We can fix Public Education with the biggest discrepancy since the gilded age w
Well, after such a great introduction, i cant wait to hear the speaker myself. [laughter] sometimes all these introductions can backfire. Recently, new York Magazine voted me as one of the 100 smartest people in new york city. [laughter] i thought, wow, what an honor. But in all fairness, in all fairness, i have to admit that madonna also made that same list. [laughter] and i understand that next year lady gaga is going to push me off the list entirely. [laughter] now today im going to the talk about the future, the future of the mind. And let me say that talking about the future is dangerous. Let me quote from that great philosopher of the western world, yogi berra [laughter] yogi berra once said, quote prediction is awfully hard to do, especially if its about the future. [laughter] well, im a physicist. We can predict the future of the universe billions of years into the future. So let me quote from that other great philosopher, woody allen. [laughter] he once said, quote eternity is
Postcode tv is on the campus of Duke University in durham, North Carolina, where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their book. Joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book, the road out the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. What do you do here at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of a researching occult social Science Research institute and that is the unit composed of people doing research in the social science and disciplined and i do a lot of research. Im also a social entrepreneur, so i direct the nonprofit called page, partnership for appalachian girls education. And there i work with appalachian girls in middleschool and help them get Educational Opportunity and access. I have a couple different hats i wear at the university. A researcher in our social entrepreneur. Host social entrepreneur. Is that a new term . I think it was coined by nicholas kristof. It was a widely used term. People like you basically di
To be a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. He has so many acres it took more than a week to realize his missing cows were in fact shot dead. Reporter nothing tells you, youre just a half hour from the city. Theres always bad things happening in the city. Bad things happening in the country too. Reporter this long, windy road brought trouble to the ranch. Someone along this road shot three cows dead in the passenger. Theyre not very far. Reporter about 15 miles from the road. It happened about a week ago. The cattle rancher reported it after he couldnt find a few cows on his 300acre ranch. Then he spotted them in this pasture. Now theyre graves. Two of the cows were pregnant, due in a month. One had her ear cut off like a trophy. Maybe its something that makes them feel good that they did it. Its not cool, and i wish i found the people, ill tell you that much. There is also a calf missing, likely stolen. In all about a 50,000 loss in business. It just bugs you, theres people o
Out jogging this afternoon or napping. Good morning, everybody, looking at the schuylkill expressway in fairmont park. Tail lights heading eastbound approaching prg montgomery drive. I95 southbound construction gone everything is reopened no issues. The overnight construction on the taconypalmyra is out of the way. Theres a crash on the big board in Washington Crossing bucks county an suv ran off the road into the woods and leaking fuel in the woods which, of course, is not a good thing. All unfolding 532 Washington Crossing road near taylorsville road watch out for the crews on the scene. Construction cruise on the turnpike westbound near willow grove they are cleared out westbound by Fort Washington, but working eastbound by the Fort Washington interchange. The crews blockerring the ramp 295 northbound to the black horse pike have cleared. Everything reopened there. Were watching breaking not out of kenya. A gang of masked bandits stormed a College Campus 14 are dead and 16 injured.