Over the last ten years, PENCIL has sent out leaders from non-profits and commercial businesses to work in the public schools as "principals for a day." This year participants will work with Chancellor Klein’s new reading and writing curriculum. Also, the Zarb Commission’s report, fromer Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, and the approaching nanotechnology boom.
Dr. Richard Smalley on nanotechnology
Dr. Richard Smalley on nanotechnology
School Spending
Beth Fertig Reporter, WNYC on the campaign for fiscal equity and the Zarb Commission
Pencil Me In
Ramon Cortines former New York schools Chancellor looks forward to becoming a "Principal for a Day"
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Lisa Belzberg chairman of PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning) organizes "Principal for a Day"
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Lisa Belzberg chairman of PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning) organizes "Principal for a Day"
The Democratic, Demographic Time Bomb
Avraham Burg Labor Member of the Knesset, former Knesset Speaker, and signatory of the Geneva Accords worries that demographic pressure may destroy Israeli democracy
When Small is Big
James Suroweicki Writes the financial column in The New Yorker sums up the business of nanotechnology
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Dr. Richard Smalley Professor of chemistry at Rice University, Nobel laureate and inventor of "the Bucky Ball" explains the applications and developments of nanotechnology
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Dr. Richard Smalley Professor of chemistry at Rice University, Nobel laureate and inventor of "the Bucky Ball" explains the applications and developments of nanotechnology
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