SciTalks/HumTalks/GovTalks/BusiTalks

These four sites collect video lectures on scientific, humanities, government, and business topics by prominent thinkers. I've sampled a number of the talks and found them to be extremely valuable. These sites could be very useful to instructors who want to supply supplementary materials for their courses. _____JH

 

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Four Wheels Good, Two Wheels Bad!

Four Wheels Good, Two Wheels Bad!
Seventh grader Adam Marino, of Saratoga Springs New York, is getting an early education in law and citizenship courtesy of the New York State Police and his school district. His offense? Riding a bicycle to school. At the start of school in September, Kaddo Marino thought that she had a nonverbal agreement with school officials to allow her son to ride his bike until a new policy was resolved. But on the night before classes started, school authorities called parents to say that walking a

Radio program eases transition for Vietnamese parents in Garden Grove

'Youth and Education' aims to bridge a cultural divide by providing tips on helping students on a wide range of questions.

Annie Mai knows what it's like to be the only Vietnamese student in class. She understands what it is to have parents who work long hours and are unable to help their children with schoolwork. And she can relate when a child must translate for her parents during teacher conferences.

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