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The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

Every day, faculty members at schools and universities throughout the world are making discoveries that shape our ways of thinking and redefine our understanding of today’s knowledge-driven society. Since 1990, The Best of Our Knowledge has highlighted breakthroughs across disciplines and across the globe, putting you in touch with the men and women at the forefront of their fields. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.

#1555: Demagogue – The Life Of Senator Joe McCarthy | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1554: The Segregationist History Of School Choice | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1553: Deepwater Horizon: 10 Years Later | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1552: The Slave Who Went To Congress | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1551: Birds, Books & Technology | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1550: “The Decade of Progressive Change” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1549: Scientists Divided On Antibody Tests | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1548: “Hyper Education” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1547: School And Work Schedules Compete | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1546: Grant Fowlds’ “Saving The Last Rhinos” | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1544: COVID-19: How Students Are Learning & Will Med Schools Change? |The Best of Our Knowledge

#1543: COVID-19 & Teachers Stepping Up | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1542: Scientists Leading The Fight Against COVID-19 | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1541: “Switching To Online” | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1540: “Getting Graphic About Having A Bipolar Disorder” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1539: “Surfing Vietnam & Finding Your EDGE” | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1538: “A Disconnected Generation” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1537: “Why They Still Can’t Write” | The Best of Our Knowledge

#1536: “Keeping Dracula In The Family” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1535: “Preparing Taxes For College Credit” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1534: Coral Reef Life & Detecting The Coronavirus | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1533: “Test Scores VS. GPAs – And Animating The Beatles” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1532: “Educated for Freedom” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1531: Does College Still Work? | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1530: “The History Of Impeachment” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1529: The Death And (possible) Rebirth Of An Indy | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1528: Nancy Brigham’s “A Fragile Enterprise – Yesterday’s Schools And Tomorrow’s Students”| The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1527: “Best Of 2019” | The Best Of Our Knowledge

#1526: Paul Kitagaki’s “Behind Barbed Wire”

#1525: Two Researchers With Two Very Different Approaches To Alzheimer’s

#1524: Felicia Darling’s “Teachin’ It! Breakout Moves that Break Down Barriers for Community College Students”

#1523: Dr. Lydia Pyne’s “Genuine Fakes – How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff”

#1522: “Sing A Rhythm, Dance A Blues”

#1521: “Flip-Flops And Microwaved Fish”

#1520: “Do Devices Delay Development?”

1519: “Better Life Through Gaming”

#1518: “Revisiting The City Of A Million Dreams”

#1517: “Learning In The AP Fast Lane”

#1516: Academic Badges & School Safety

#1515: Sean Connolly’s “Terrifyingly Awesome Technology”

#1514: “The History Of American Higher Education Since World War 2”

#1513: “Did AOC Author The New Deal?”

#1512: Going Back To School Safely

#1511: “The Baltimore Algebra Project”

#1510: “The 5-Paragraph Essay Must Die!”

#1509: Mindfulness, Coloring Books & Labs

#1508: “Can Generous Thinking Save The University?”

#1507: “How’s The Constitution Holding Up?”

#1506: “Sunshine State Edition”

#1505: Cracks In The Ivory Tower

#1504: Remembering Dr. Karen Hitchcock

#1503: “Remaking High School”

#1502: “Lies My Doctor Told Me,” New Literacy Program Leader, Summer School Garden

#1501: An Exit Interview From SUNY Plattsburgh President Dr. John Ettling

#1499: “The SAT Adversity Index”

#1498: “Late Bloomers” Achieving Success at a Young Age

#1495: “Evaluating Schools For Tomorrow’s Students”

#1494 “A Look At Dementia”

#1493 “SKYPE In The Classroom”

#1492: “The Untold Story Of The Atlanta Cheating Scandal”

#1491: “Learning The West African Beat”

#1490: “The Future Of Academic Freedom”

#1489: “Raising White Kids”

#1488: “Revisiting The Written Word”

#1487: “The Hunt For Commies In New York Schools”

#1486: “The Quest For Bean”

#1485: “A Life In History”

#1484: “NOLA – City Of A Million Dreams”

#1483: “Studying Artificial Intelligence & Climate Change”

#1482: “Teacher’s Lies and Sundown Towns”

#1481: “The State Of Teacher Labor Relations”

#1480: “Building Student Skill For Success”

#1479: “Exploring The History Of The Blues And Franco Americans”

#1478 “Math With Bad Drawings”

#1477: “Navigating The New Childhood”

#1475: “Best Of TBOOK 2018 – Cool People”

#1474: “Best Of TBOOK 2018 – Great Stories”

#1473: “The Traveling Language Teacher”

#1472: “Training Women To Be Medical Professors”

#1471: “Dear Parents – A College Field Guide”

#1470: “Desert Rose High School – A Vegas Experiment”

#1469: “Grading For Equity”

#1468: “College Cooking Goes Downtown”

#1467: “The ‘Teaching Reading’ Controversy”

#1466: “Supporting Diversity On Campus”

#1465: “Sexual Consent On Campus”

#1464: “A Helping Hand For Vets”

#1463: “The Tango War”

#1462: “Sit Down And Shut Up!”

#1461 “How Much Free Speech Is Allowed On Campus?”

#1460: “White Kids”

#1459: “You STILL Can’t Fire The Bad Ones”

#1458: “Catching Up With The Hudson Valley”

#1457: “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

#1456: “BRAINS!”

#1455: “The Trans Generation”

#1454: “Updating NEEMO”

#1454 “History Class – Christian Slavery”

#1452: “High Debt – Lower Ed”

#1451: “Saving Fair Oaks Elementary”

#1450: “Making History With National History Day”

#1449: “Education And Ethics”

#1448: “The 2018 Teacher Strikes”

#1447: “The Global Corner”

#1446: “Bobby Kennedy – An American Liberal Icon”

#1444: “The Women Who Starred In Early Astronomy”

#1443: “Women In STEM”

#1442: “Revisiting The Faultlines In The Constitution”

#1441: “Teaching Fact From Fake”

#1440: “Teaching Financial Literacy”

#1439: “Sesame Place Now A Certified Autism Center”

#1438: “Communicating Science The Alan Alda Way”

#1437: “Campus Confidential – Again”

#1436 “Common Core Vs Democracy”

#1435: “One Goal”

#1434: “When Grit Isn’t Enough”

#1433: “Meet The Urban Assembly”

#1432: “The Newcomers”

#1431: “Character Education”

#1429: “History Class: The Life And Times Of Grant”

#1428: “Finding A New York-Chernobyl Link”

#1427: “Anything Plants Can Do We Can Do Better!”

#1426: “You Can’t Fire The Bad Ones”

#1425: “Success Skills For School And Career”

#1424: “Grading Financial Education”

#1423: “2017 In Review: You Meet The Coolest People”

#1422: “2017 In Review: Adults With Autism”

#1421: “Education and the Environment”

#1420: “Cutting School”

#1419: “The Strive Together Network”

#1418: “The Pilot Of the Lab”

#1417: “The C-SPAN Bus

#1416: “Changing College For A Society In Flux”

#1415: “The Importance Of Bringing The Funny”

#1414: “I’m Bernardo deGalvez, Who Are You?”

#1413: “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?”

#1412 “A History Of Time Travel”

#1411: “These Schools Belong To You And Me”

#1410: “Morning Meetings For Special Ed Classes”

#1409: “Fault Lines In The Constitution”

#1408: “How Pirates And Mutiny Formed The Federal Courts”

#1407: “A NYC High School Goes Coed After Nearly 60 Years”

#1406: “Scientists And Medicine”

#1405: “Connections At Connecticut College”

#1404: “A Hearing Impaired Middle School Music Teacher Becomes A Hero”

#1403: “Navigating Your Child’s Disability”

#1402: “You Can Do Anything – With A Liberal Arts Education”

#1401: “Learning The Arts And Sciences”

#1400: “The New Kids”

#1399 “Did Self-Directed Learning Break Up The Beatles?

#1397: “Campus Confidential”

#1396: “Taking A Gap Year Abroad”

#1395: “GED Works!”

#1394: “Changes In The Empire State”

#1393: “Women In College Health Study”

#1392: “Winning The College Admissions Game”

#1391: “Smart Homes”

#1390: “Simulation Training At The V.A.”

#1389: “Pushout… Again”

#1388: “Pandora’s Lab”

#1387: “The Final Frontier”

#1386: “Taking Care Of Caregivers”

#1385: “Lower Ed”

#1384: “The Supreme Court And Special Ed”

#1383: “Reconsidering Reading Reconsidered”

#1382: “Lab Girl”

#1381: “Adults With Autism”

#1380: “A Center For Children With Autism”

#1379: “Girls Who Code”

#1378: “Betsy DeVos – In Her Own Words”

#1377: “Ask More Questions”

#1375: “You’ve Been Learning Wrong”

#1374: “Empire State Education Policy”

#1373: “Teaching Politics – Starting From Scratch”

#1372: “Education Needs Communication”

#1371: “Talking Science With Ira Flatow…Again”

#1370: “Let’s Meet Some Cool People Again”

#1369: “So You Wanna Be A Teacher”

#1368: “Tietz – A 21st Century Textbook”

#1367: “A Title IX Suprise”

#1366: “A Substitute’s Story”

#1365: “Ireland’s Got A Hamilton Too”

#1364: “The Political Classroom”

#1363: “The Synthetic Cadaver Lab”

#1362: “Ending Zero Tolerance”

#1361: “In The Shadow Of Liberty”

#1360: “Teaching Politics In An ‘Unusual’ Year”

#1359: “Go South To Freedom”

#1358 “ITT Tech Students – What’s Next?”

#1357: “Learning Liberty”

#1356 “Maria Says Goodbye To Sesame Street”

#1355: “Remembering D.A. Henderson”

#1354: “The Aviation-Medicine Connection”

#1353: “Show Me The Jobs”

#1352: “The Steroid Debate”

#1351: “The Mix ‘N Match Degree”

#1350: “The Gamers’ Degree”

#1349: “Leadership and Bachelors and Warm Lines (OH MY!)”

#1348: “Educational Ethics”

#1347: “Finding NEEMO”

#1346: “Political Science And Brexit”

#1345: “Know Your Audience”

#1344: “The Cyber Secretary”

#1343: “Pushout – The Criminalization Of Black Girls In Schools”

#1342: “History Class: Abe Lincoln – Self Made Politician”

#1341: “Transgender Classrooms”

#1340: “Virtual Reality Use In Education”

#1339: “Reading Reconsidered”

#1338: “Women, The Church And Higher Education”

#1337: “The ‘Stronger Nation’ Report”

#1336: “Talking Science With Ira Flatow”

#1335: “Spectrum of Kindness”

#1334: Defending Darwin – Evolution Education In The US

#1333: 30 Million Words

#1332: “Destination Imagination”

#1331: “The Song of the Stars”