Teaching Children to Read
The "Teaching Children to Read" video highlights the main points of the National Reading Panel's comprehensive report on reading instruction. The video explains research-based findings through classroom applications with real students. The video als...
Genre: Government publication
Political Stalemate: Activist vs. Passive Government
Act. Americans, wary of activist government; hand Republicans a major loss in the mid-year elections of 1890. Two years later Harrison secures his party
Series: American Government And Politicsand Politics
Transcript: government. [calhoun:] and so the republicans lost very big In the 1890 congressional elections. And harrison was not particularly adept At smoothing relations
Government by Committee: Organizing for Congressional Business
Congress has twin organizational bases: committees where most of the substantive work on legislation occurs and the leadership provided by the party. Initially Congress tried to operate as a "committee of the whole" but the gridlock that resulted mo...
Series: American Government And Politics
Transcript: the armed services committee Because we had a big military base in my district And on the energy and commerce committee, Because there was a lot of
The Fourth Estate: Winning the News Game
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, reporters and cameras converge on late-breaking news events with one thought in mind: winning the news game. In the 1950s and 1960s, most people's access to political information came from three television...
Series: American Government And Politics
Subject: big business
Transcript: start To essentially distort what's being reported About public affairs. And you begin to go for the killer story, I mean, the big story. And often times
The Human Face of Big Data
: Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago but now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the extinguishing of the final
Liquid Assets: The Big Business of Water
With fresh water making up only 3 percent of the world’s supply, are we looking at a global crisis in the making? Some say it’s already upon us—whether for drinking, growing crops, or proper hygiene, shortages are emerging all over the planet....
Transcript: bottled water. This is Liquid Assets, the Big Business of Water. Welcome. I'm here at the Hoover Dam, a magnificent feat of engineering built on the
Big Mac: inside the McDonald's empire
Despite the low-wage, low-prestige reputation of the typical "McJob," a McDonald's franchise owner often manages budgets and income in the millions of dollars. This CNBC program looks at the history and working philosophy behind the world's largest ...
Transcript: CONTROVERSY. BIG MAC, A LARGE FRY AND A LARGE COKE - 1,430 CALORIES, 59 GRAMS OF FAT. YOU HAVE TO MAKE CHOICES ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT. MCDONALD'S IS
Question of Sovereignty, A: Contrast in Nixon's and Reagan's Approach to Federalism
Richard Nixon tried to "rationalize" the system by sorting out the functions of government at each level. He developed a program of general revenue
Series: American Government And Politics
Subject: Reagan's attack on "big government"
Transcript: a change in big government, It simply decentralizes it. And he was very successful. So, in a way, he carried on the liberal tradition right there
Legendary Frontier, The: Government Policies Undermine Indian Way of Life
The United States Indian policy is never genocidal; in fact government officials want them to survive but on their terms, abandoning tribal identify
Subject: U. S. government's Indian policy
Transcript: , The official goal of the government. By the late 19th century, as the west began to fill Up with european americans, then there was greater And greater
Government Involvement
The government of Bangladesh continues to focus on attracting orders and investments from multinational retailers. The government sides with factory