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Need to Know

Season 2011 · Episode 6

Ahead of the Class

0.0February 11, 2011

As the nation debates how to get the best performance out of students and teachers, Need to Know presents an hour devoted to success stories in teaching.

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Episodes

Episode 1Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan
Episode 2Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail
Episode 3Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China
Episode 4Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?
Episode 5Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s
Episode 6Ahead of the Class
Episode 7The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking
Episode 8Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates
Episode 9Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions
Episode 10Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions
Episode 11Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation
Episode 12Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research
Episode 13Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat
Episode 14The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education
Episode 15Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit
Episode 16Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago
Episode 17Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women
Episode 18Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers
Episode 19Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet
Episode 20Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown
Episode 21Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity
Episode 22Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse
Episode 23New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome
Episode 24Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages
Episode 25Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times
Episode 26Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety
Episode 27California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem
Episode 28Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling
Episode 29Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality
Episode 30Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons
Episode 31The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall
Episode 32Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon
Episode 33Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change
Episode 34Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping
Episode 359-11, Ten Years Later
Episode 36Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector
Episode 37Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale
Episode 38Chemical pollution and the EPA
Episode 39Help wanted
Episode 40The politics of resentment
Episode 41The nuclear question
Episode 42Jobs in the balance
Episode 43Creating opportunity
Episode 44Coming home: The enduring sacrifice
Episode 45The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices
Episode 46Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown
Episode 47Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio
Episode 48Making Congress work
Episode 49Mayor under siege
Episode 50Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq
Episode 51Eye on Iowa