Nov 28th, 2008 · Detroit-born pianist, composer and educator Geri Allen is a musician of great depth and creativity. She's recently been presented with a Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition. Allen displays her compositional skills and plays the music of Monk and Strayhorn with McPartland.
Nov 25th, 2008 · An orthodox Jewish woman gets a most unorthodox education in this mystical Israeli drama, which Mark Jenkins says is as concerned with the erotic as the spiritual.
Nov 25th, 2008 · For nearly three decades Tim Zaal thought he had kicked a gay man to death during his rage-filled youth. Then one day, he found himself face to face with the man he thought he had killed. After some extreme awkwardness, they decided to use their story to educate people about the dangers of hate.
Nov 19th, 2008 · Bill Ayers gained a lot of attention in the last days of the 2008 presidential campaign when he became the focus of Republican attacks against then-Senator Barack Obama. Ayers, a former member of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, is now an educator in Chicago. He talks about the extent of his association with the President-elect and why he remained silent during the campaign.
Nov 18th, 2008 · In January, Michelle Obama will make history as the nation's first black First Lady. But Obama, an Ivy-League educated attorney, is a symbol in her own right. As she prepares for her own White House transition, working mothers are watching to see what legacy she will leave on a historic presidency.
Nov 18th, 2008 · During the presidential election campaign, the Republican ticket tried to make an issue out of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers. He's the 1960s-era radical that later served on a charitable board with Obama. Ayers wasn't heard from much during the campaign. Now the nationally known scholar on urban education is on a book tour.
Nov 18th, 2008 · President-elect Obama will take office at a time when a college education is both more valuable and more expensive than ever. To deliver aid, he could create an education tax credit, increase Pell Grant awards or simply "fix the economy."
Nov 17th, 2008 · As the Obama family prepares to transition into the White House, one of the most pressing matters is choosing a school for their two daughters, Sasha and Malia. Mary Lord, of D.C. State Board of Education; Mark Gooden, an education professor and Jay Matthews, education columnist for the Washington Post talk about the sometimes complicated choice between public or private schooling for children.