Fighting Crime

Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime .

Anne Milgram

When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their decisions were actually making the public safer. And so began her ongoing, inspirational quest to bring data analytics and statistical analysis to the US criminal justice system. 

Why Massive Open Online Courses Matter

MOOCs

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES

Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read

Blind almost since birth, Ron McCallum is one of Australia's most respected legal scholars, and an activist on behalf of disabled people around the globe.

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Jamie Oliver: Chef

Jamie Oliver: Chef, activist

 Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children.

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Every Kid Needs A Champion

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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What School Systems Can Learn From PISA

PISA (Program of International Student Assessment)

How can we measure what makes a school system work? 

Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another -- then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.

What makes a great school system? To find out, Andreas Schleicher administers a test to compare student performance around the world. Full bio »


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Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education

In TEDxMadridSalon , an independent event organized under a TED licence , this video could be seen .

"Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.” (Sugata Mitra)

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.

Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest. To know more click here