One of the great champions of free speech and the longtime host of Meet The Press passed away today at age 58.
The latest installment of WLIW21 New York Public Television's award-winning education series LEARNING CURVE features highlights from the third annual "Teaching & Learning Celebration" event co-sponsored by public television stations WLIW21 and Thirteen/WNET.
I am very proud to say that complete one-hour videos of our Featured Speakers Dr. Jane Goodall and Jean-Michel Cousteau are NOW live and ready for viewing.
By Maura B. Thompson. --For two years, as a teacher, I hoped to attend the Teaching and Learning Celebration. Who would have thought I would finally land my chance by working in the Education Department at Thirteen?
By David Reisman. --It's hard to believe the 2008 Celebration was a week ago! I was working in the Studio with my colleagues from Educational Publishing and a variety of nice volunteers, handing out some of our publications, taking a few pictures, and stamping the PBS neighborhood sheets for the prize basket drawing.
By Roman Brygider. -- I'm a Producer/Director for WLIW's National Productions Department. Over the years I've helped to produce WLIW's Health Chronicles Series, the nostalgic history series: New York the Way it Was and episodes in our heritage series which include: The Asian Indian Americans along with other episodes on the Chinese, Mexican, German, Italian, and Jewish American communities.
By Deborah Meier. --I remember the first time I went to a meeting called by the Carnegie Corporation -- to start the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). I was shocked at the luxury -- a huge platter of shrimps, elegant meals, in an elegant hotel! I kept thinking—more money was spent on those appetizers and drinks than I have to spend on my whole school! But I grew to appreciate it. But not so much that we gave up having our own chintzy staff retreats, at children\'s camps, with outdoor toilets and bunk beds!
By Ronald Thorpe. --Whatever educators try to do, it never seems to be enough. And since schools have so many paymasters -- it was hard enough when it was local, state and federal levels of government, but today the list includes an array of private foundations, corporations, and even individuals -- schools of all sorts are trying to make decisions while getting pulled in myriad directions.
