Stream Your Event | Partners | Speakers CART ITEMS: - | CHECKOUT

Wendy Kopp and Malcolm Gladwell Talk Education Reform

Watch Full Video | previews

The New York Public Library

Info
Bio
Chapters
Preview
Download
Zoom In

Gladwell and Kopp: Did Katrina Help New Orleans Schools?

05 min 27 sec

Add to Profile

The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell and Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp debate about whether or not Hurricane Katrina was the best thing to ever happen to the New Orlean's public school system.

"So you had a nucleus in place, poised to take advantage of an opportunity," says Gladwell. "The opportunity was Katrina, and that allowed an awful lot of change to happen in a very short period of time."
Watch Full Program

01 hr 45 min 10 sec

Add to Profile

There are 2 comments on this program

Please or register to post a comment.

Previous FORAtv comments:

Eric25001

Posted: 02.15.11, 12:54 AM

In a perfect world? Why have school? Why not learn at home? Robo teach? Start before birth? Gene enhanced? Read Write Math Think Narrow minded thinking? IQ matters!

Plato.179

Posted: 02.11.11, 08:48 PM

I support her attempts at inner-city education programing and generally support her philosophy. However, teachers can be helped to achieve their classroom goals (if caught before they become frustrated) and so can students (before they are so frustrated they will no longer try - and drop out). Sorry for the awkward sentence. The movement that they are talking about sounds suspiciously like a business model- I have always been suspicious of this model. It leads to a that are open to corporate mind-set, the bottom line. Some portion of humanity seems to always get lost. Which, in my opinion, leads to the same situation (cultural attitudes) we have now, ultra success at one end and extreme "failure" at the other. My philosophy is to find the appropriate place in society for all willing and desirous of a place. We must learn to be tolerant of each other and patient