Tag: Education
Teacher’s experience is a ‘passport’ to a PR problem for public TV
Public TV undercuts its own case for public support when episodes of Nova go behind a paywall.Kids love listening to stories. So why aren’t public media podcasts telling them any?
“With parents so concerned about kids overdosing on screen time, you’d think public radio would pick up the baton.”WHYY introduces cameras to classrooms as gateway for young storytellers
The pubcaster is helping Philadelphia students learn digital media skills with a three-year program.MacArthur-backed nonprofit aims to create “new ecosystem” for teen education
LRNG is a new platform designed to help close the achievement gap for children ages 13 and up.Florida legislature cuts funding for PBS LearningMedia
The funds would have supported adapting the PBS materials to state standards.Ready to Learn builds on digital-learning push with new station grants
The Ready to Learn program backing educational media and outreach for children ages 2 to 8 is making digital learning through community ...Conn. network inks deal with schools for media academy
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network has signed an agreement with the Hartford public school system to establish at CPBN headquarters a hands-on lab ...Why fund a whole doc?
Few docs as substantial as The Principal Story, which airs on P.O.V. Sept. 15, are funded in full by a single angel, but this one ...Wave of brief analog shutdowns are clear warnings to over-air viewers
As if they march under the banner, “Leave no grandma behind,” commercial and public stations, city by city, have begun a series ...EDCAR: ‘mother ship’ for school media
Five years after the collapse of the CPB-backed OnCourse project, public TV is training for another run at the target. Which is: ...Kids’ pipeline
Debut this fall [2007] Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari Producing organizations: Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari LLC. Producer: Rob Child. Creators: Rob Child, Jim Knox, Bruce ...Spirits rise as PBS acts: science, kids, on demand
During a PBS Showcase meeting distinguished by a sense of optimism that public TV had emerged stronger after last year’s political troubles, ...Philly gets its first airing of 1968 Wiseman film
If Frederick Wiseman’s High School works like a time machine, transporting viewers back to their own coming of age experiences in this quintessential American ...Stations’ Forum petition seeks to reorganize PBS, October 2000
The National Forum for Public Television Executives, meeting in Dallas Oct. 2-4, 2000, agreed upon the following petition to put before the ...Electronic genes: an important part of America’s cultural DNA
One witness the congressmen didn’t lecture about donor-list improprieties at a House telecom subcommittee hearing July 20 [1999], was documentarian Ken Burns, ...
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