Ted Talks: Education Revolution

TED Talks: Education Revolution, with Baratunde Thurston co-hosting with actor and Tony Award-winning singer Sara Ramirez, focuses on how education is changing to adapt to our new digital world, examining what the classroom might look like in the future and the impact of online teaching. The program features talks from innovators in the field of education, including Sal Khan and Victor Rios. We also take a deep dive into the problems of the school-to-prison pipeline with a TED Talk from Principal Nadia Lopez, whose middle school is in the most dangerous borough in New York and where almost all her students live below the poverty line. Address the issue of over-parenting with some revolutionary ideas from Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult, who believes chores and love are more important than a check-listed childhood. With music from Meshell Ndegeocello and several short films on the modern classroom, Implicit Bias, and what it’s like to be.an undocumented student.