A Place of Our Own: Behavior and Emotions: Part 1
Using approaches from parents, teachers, and childcare providers, this program presents reliable methods for addressing childhood emotions and behavior problems. Topics include conflict resolution, self-control, tantrums..
A Place of Our Own: Early Childhood Solutions--Special Needs
One in three children arrives in kindergarten unprepared for the challenges of school. Hosted by former teacher Debi Gutierrez, this program presents information and insights that will help in the care and education of y..
A Prologue to Chaucer
A scholarly program that reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late-14th-century England. Period art of exceptional richness is combined with location pho..
A Question of Fairness: The Affirmative Action Debate
Entering a crucible of racial, political, and legal issues, this program explores America’s national debate over affirmative action. Viewers will receive a detailed look at the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case which confir..
A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today
Did racist atrocities in the 19th and 20th centuries bring Western society to an ethical and ideological turning point? Or has racial oppression simply assumed other, more insidious forms? Pursuing answers, this program ..
A Short Story of France’s Epic Language
From medieval Gaul to the Age of the Internet, the French language has kept in step with history, changing and growing with the times yet never losing its unique character. This program stops at various points along the ..
A TV in the Baby Bottle
Whether it’s to give parents a break from caretaking, to provide kids with an educational head start, or a guilt-free mixture of both, TV shows that purport to be good for a baby’s brain attract more new viewers ever..
A comparison of religious thought
Are there more similarities than differences between the five major religions of the world? Where do interfaith comparisons lead? Should students concentrate instead on the unique aspects of each religion? This program f..
A different kind of care
At the end of life, what many Americans want is physical and spiritual comfort in a home setting. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers presents the important strides being made in the area of palliative ca..
A history of social classes
Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal ..