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TED Education, 64 episodes.

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Why you should love statistics : Alan Smith

2

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty: Kandice Sumner

3

How to fix a broken education system ... without any more money: Seema Bansal

4

How to spot a liar - Pamela Meyer

5

The Chinese zodiac, explained - Shao Lan

6

How better tech could protect us from distraction: Tristan Harris

7

Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school

8

Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard

9

Suki Kim: This is what it's like to teach in North Korea

10

Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America

11

Khalida Brohi: How I work to protect women from honor killings

12

Laura Boushnak: For these women, reading is a daring act

13

Ben Ambridge: 10 myths about psychology: Debunked

14

Bassam Tariq: The beauty and diversity of Muslim life

15

Carol Dweck: The power of believing you can improve

16

Pico Iyer: The art of stillness

17

Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater

18

Fred Swaniker: The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it

19

Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door

20

Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a tiny forest anywhere

21

Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Why lunch ladies are heroes

22

Talithia Williams: Own your body's data

23

Shai Reshef: An ultra-low-cost college degree

24

Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?

25

Billy Collins: Two poems about what dogs think (probably)

26

Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English

27

Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry

28

Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school

29

Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world

30

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

31

Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance

32

Daniel H. Cohen: For argument’s sake

33

Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit

34

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley

35

Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher

36

Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!

37

Malcolm London: “High School Training Ground”

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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

39

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

40

Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools

41

Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

42

Hey science teachers -- make it fun

43

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

44

Colin Powell: Kids need structure

45

Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

46

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games

47

Leah Buechley: How to "sketch" with electronics

48

Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome

49

Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

50

Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course

51

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education

52

Beeban Kidron: The shared wonder of film

53

Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx

54

Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom

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Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?

56

Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time

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Chris Bliss: Comedy is translation

58

Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School

59

Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

60

Aleph Molinari: Let’s bridge the digital divide!

61

Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

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Salman Khan : Let’s use video to reinvent education

63

John Wooden on true success

64

Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education