What the Next Administration Can Do to Address the Skills Sh

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Using Assessment to Improve Instruction

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

Patrick Awuah on educating leaders | Video on TED.com

Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders.

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.