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9:58 am
Fri June 22, 2012

4th Grader Lets School Know She's Got Rights

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When the girls basketball team was cut from Charlotte Murphy's Pittsburgh school last year, the then 4th grader told the superintendent that the cut went against Title IX. For the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law that prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex, host Michel Martin talks to Murphy and Superintendent Linda Lane.

Deceptive Cadence
9:19 am
Fri June 22, 2012

'Next!' How Do You Reduce Audition Anxiety?

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The difference between being first sax and fourth is nailing the audition — and you can give your child the advantage of careful preparation.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 3:44 pm

All this week, we've been exploring the ways families help kids learn to play music. Along the way, we've gleaned lots of great tips on everything from choosing an instrument to tantrum-free practice from our readers, as well as young musicians who have appeared on From the Top and their parents.

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TED Radio Hour
8:55 am
Fri June 22, 2012

How Can Fourth-Graders Solve World Problems?

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Educator John Hunter says being a teacher is like reaching through time. "You're making an effect right here, in this room today you're not even aware of, and yet decades later — maybe even generations later, the effect can become apparent."
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TED Radio Hour
8:55 am
Fri June 22, 2012

How Can Videos "Flip The Classroom"?

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"In order for the teachers to get you through the next hurdle, they have to make it more memorization based. And so what we say is no, let's just to do the opposite." — Salman Khan
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TED Radio Hour
8:55 am
Fri June 22, 2012

How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?

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"There's a terrible tendency to confuse raising standards with standardizing." — Sir Ken Robinson
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Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Building A Better Classroom. Watch Sir Ken Robinson's full Talks — Schools Kill Creativity and Bring On The Learning Revolution -- on TED.com

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