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what do you teach at mit. >> i teach american history to 1865. i teach a course northern revolution. and, with a colleague, professor focalson i teach on riots strikes and conspiracy in american history and class called american classics, all the good parts that you should have read but probably haven't. >> with all of this information and we hear about history being taught in schools and the memorization of dates, et cetera, et cetera, what is the best way to teach history, in your view. >> we are always trying to figure out the best way to teach history. we teach it well at mit because we have small classes, we don't have the huge halls an thousand people and i get a small group of people around the table and we read the documents and talk about them and students often remember best what they think and not what they are told and let them discover the past through the documents and it speaks to them directly and that is the way i like to teach history and is possible at a place like mit and it is especially good for the humanities. >> 202 this i

this month, professor pauline maier of mit. >> caller: yes, thank you for taking my call. most high school students that i talk to don't know anything atal all about the american revolutionary period. they don't know anything about a really pivotal military leaders like nathaniel green, daniel morgan, even washington himself. and what a bitter struggle it was. my question is, why do you think this portion of american history is so abysmally neglected in public schools? and i'll take my answer off the air. thank you. >> guest: well, is it always abysmally neglected in public schools? i think american history in general is not taught terribly well, but there are some extremely bright spots not necessarily on the revolutionary war. rev i've become aware of a nationalo competitionme called we, thecom people, where high school students understand thecons constitution and issues that are related to it, to the wholediti documentary tradition of the revolution with amazing sophistication. i gather the program is in some funding peril at present, but i, you know, there are bright s

mit university, they were originally going to be incubator space. the light side industry emerged in the project and we read more into the master plan. it ended up being over 2 million square feet. we also have everything from the entitlements, development, to oversee construction, to operating. we still pay ground rent to mit. last year, they got $20 million for their participation. so it has been an incredible success of an internationally- renowned life science center. metro tech in new york, 3000 square feet of office in downtown brooklyn. the city of new york, pa sea-tac institute came to us and said that they want to create job growth in the middle of brooklyn. effectively, this project created downtown brooklyn and offered that. stapleton, 4,700 acres of infill development that is the former denver airport. obviously, a tremendous amount of issues related to brownfield, financing structures used throughout this project. there is also an incredibly sustainable model behind that, with 1000 square feet of open space. our next project actually ho

we work together, several schools at mit with industry partners, internationally and domestically on issues confronting the internet and ideas to technology aware business strategy and business strategy aware in technology and bridge that gap. >> what are you thinking about most these days? >> well, with the internet, there's a lot of things to think about. me, personally, i think about wireless issues, and i come out of a regulatory economics research background, so i'm especially interested in all of the sort of nontech any call side of policy and business strategy and how that interarguments with the -- interacts with the internet. how do we ensure healthy internet climate and how do we design architectures and the internet spectrums are what i think about recently. >> we'll get into that in just a min, but when you graduated from your first college, university of pennsylvania, you graduated in the era of flop y disks and dialup modems, what did you see in the future in 1969? >> you know, at the time, you know, the notion that we would be getting to something like more what we hav

[inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this young man was their second gift from god. he died of flu a few months after he hopped on a train. another one was murdered in new york city. really grisly and bad faith. but those who came back, many of them send their children to be educated in america. these children came back to china. a lot of third and fourth generation lived here. any other questions? >> my great-grandfather is in your book. >> oh my! >> i don't speak chinese. my last name is jane. you have expelled two way is. hy was known as great grandpa tie. >> there is a note in translation. we had a difficult time. i would like to talk after reading and here lot more about this remarkable man who i

the old saying that the system is the mother of invention when you have all your engineers going from mit and stanford into wall street to create financial derivatives and to financially engineer new products all that has resulted is a surfeit of trillions of dollars worth of paper and has stifled innovation paper currency stifles innovation a gold backed currency would increase innovation as it have done for hundreds of years leading up to the nine hundred seventy one period when the world went on a pure paper feed currency standard and all had the relative valuations and the great fandango post nixon disco era oh shit moment show were trading like you do on the go or what's been happening i can't dance on this continue well i might say finally max that china is the world's biggest producer of fake goods so if. getting out of fake currencies and buying gold i would say you should too all right well that's all the time we have for right now stacey we're going to give me on the cars report thank you maggie right now though i want to come back i'll be talking with a fellow up here on the sh

so we work together, several schools at mit, with industry partners both internationally and domestically to look at various issues confronting the internet. and the idea is to try and think about technologically aware policy and business strategy and business strategy aware technology and sort of try and bridge that gap. >> host: what are you thinking about most these days? >> guest: well, with the internet there's a lot of things to think about. we personally, i spend a lot of time thinking about wireless issues, and i come out of a regulatory economics research background, and so i'm especially interested in all the sort of nontechnical side of, like, policy and business strategy, how that interacts with the internet. so, you know, how do we insure healthy investment climate for the internet, how would we design next generation internet architectures, how might we manage radio spectrum are some of the issues identify been thinking about -- i've been thinking about recently. >> host: when you fraughted from the university of pennsylvania, you graduated in an era of floppy disks, compute

what we've had a last ten or fifteen twenty years is all the innovation all the engineers have left mit and stanford and gone to wall street to create financial innovation which is create lots of paper and america's competitiveness has dropped like a stone so you can't that argument doesn't hold water doesn't even make any sense so a gold standard would limit growth in fact in foster growth it would be the one thing that would create jobs and growth would be to make the rules fixed so that entrepreneurs knew what you know what they were what the game they were playing at but let's move on to something that you've been talking about in a moment in a recent newsletter john butler. you say that developed world stock market valuations have reached levels normally associated with major asset bubbles ok so forget about gold being in a bubble because clearly we can talk about why it's not a bubble i want to talk about why stock markets are are in a bubble so let's talk a little bit about that john dollar talk about stock markets and how they've reached stretched valuations well i think you sim

there is an engineering at the academy that cents for kids to mit the in any of the high school in theast bay. they also said more kids to harvard than any other high school in the east bay. they have a very famous pre engineering program. for many years i was worried that there was no women and very few african americans. how did she get interested in engineering? they said, well, we did a chatelin day. you inspired by a woman engineer or a minority? one of the girls said, he was a pretty boring white guy. there are kids in oakland that don't have the internet. i cannot imagine a kid today without the internet. we still have that digital gap. you can help me close that gap. there is a struggle to have some rights in this country -- in this country. we have fought against the remnants of discrimination against the chinese-americans. growing up in a state where education is free and well funded, that -- every child should have the ability to get an education. this is what makes america different. this is what makes a oakland pretty energetic. this is something that we can to. whether yo

the petitioners subsummit mitted on february 11, a charter renewal petition for the renewal and skipped down to the bottom of the other edits whereas the district superintendent and staff and district staff completed the review of the renewal petition and issued a report and recommendation to the board of education

hope to give the call to mit. >>> and semis of the western athletic company. adrian oliver was his usual high scoring machine. and top seeded utah state tomorrow, shot of the day within the big east tournament quarters. tied 74-74. uconn's walker upset the panthers 76-74 you have to like that. 11 of the world's top golfers completed a round of golf in miami. check out the circled area there in your left corner. 50--mile-per-hour winds knocked down some poles. >>> giants also beat cincinnati today in arizona. baumgartner strikes out six. sanchez and ross all homer in the 7-0 victory. oakland a's settle for a tie against kansas city. >> you don't hear that very often in baseball. >> thanks fred. >>> the height of the flu season is seeing what some say is impartial to the bay area. coming up, you may have thought h1n1 would go away. but despite ample amounts of vaccines it is making its presence again. the impact coming up in 30 minutes. and that is our report for tonight. i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm gasia mikaelian. for all -- for everyone here, thanks for

a new study found two out of every three drivers under 30 add mitted to texting or using -- admittedo texting or using a cell phone while driving in the last 30 days. the department of transportation call distracted an epidemic killing -- killed in 2009. >>> a big night for the sports fans. >> reporter: we're live at the westin where four more athletes go into the hall of fame. we're gonna talk to him when we come back. bree: sis, help me create my oasis. marcy: ok, romantic garden? bree: oh, is there a castle nearby? marcy: no, but there's a charming farmhouse. bree: right next to my posh castle! i'm sensing a theme here. well, i am the queen, dear sister. >>> marin catholic baseball player, gun irsandberg modeled -- gunner sandberg modeled the helmet. he was the player nearly killed last year when hit by a line drive. >> i was hit here. so the hard shell would have protected that. >> it's like a protective head band worn over a hat. the helmet needs more testing before it will be available in stores. >>> mark's here with sports. pretty cool event going on in san francisco. >> big n

the petitioners subsummit mitted on february 11, a charter renewal petition for the renewal and skipped down to the bottom of the other edits whereas the district superintendent and staff and district staff completed the review of the renewal petition and issued a report and recommendation to the board of education regarding the review of the renewal petition on march 22, 2011 therefore be resolved at the san francisco unified school district, grants the renewal petition set forth as the requirement set forth by law. the second resolution concerning five keys independent high school. number 112-22 sp 3 where authorization to grande grant the renewal petition for five key's independent high school whereas san francisco unified school district, independent high school, which is set to expire on june 30, 2011 and pursuant to education code 4067, to the district a charter renewal petition for the renewal of the charter school's petition and skipping again down to last two sections whereas the district superintendent and distribute staff completed the review oveth

and take we alternated summer 1988, is a recent mit grad looking for direction.hat is high school crush invites him to an end of summer party. that along with his sister and best friend find themselves in a once-in-a- lifetime celebration. it's rated r. >>pam: friday traffic on the golden gate bridge moving well north and southbound. a look of the san francisco skyline. the skies are blue and that will change as we move into saturday. rain is expected saturday night. kron 4 news at 5:00 is coming up next. >>live, from the bay area's news station, this is kron4 news at 5:00. >>pam: at 5:00 pg&e was under fire this week and now the company is making big changes. federal safety officials grilled utility but the san bruno pipeline explosion. as kate thompson reports, some said residents in the changes are too late to help them. >>kate: bob had to replace the entire front of this fall after december the blast. he's lived in has for nearly four years and did know he was next to the pipeline. on thursday, pg&e agreed to provide customers with more of formation. will now

what do you teach at mit? >> guest: american history to 1865 and 90 johnny american revolution and i teach a course on right at strikes in american history and another class called american classics which of the good parts we should have read but probably haven't. >> host: with all this information, history being taught and memorization of dates, what is the best way to teach history? >> guest: we are trying to figure out the best way. we did not have this huge haul of people, small business people and we read the documents and we talk about them. students often remember what they think, not what they are told. let's discover the past through the documents. this is the way i like to teach it. it is especially good for the humanities. >> host: 202-037-0001. if you like to participate in the conversation with pauline maier. for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zone. you can send an e-mail at booktv, booktv@c-span.org or send a two to twitter.com/booktv. you can send a question as well to professor m

there is an engineering at the academy that cents for kids to mit the in any of the high school in the east bay. they also said more kids to harvard than any other high school in the east bay. they have a very famous pre engineering program. for many years i was worried that there was no women and very few african americans.

education nation tonight with the work of a remarkable young man who's applying his three degrees from mit and one from harvard to help a lot of young people around the world do cccc: better in school. his classroom in this case is the internet, and his videos have become a teaching sensation. from mountain view, california, nbc's kristen welker has our story tonight. [ cheering ]cc1: >> reporter: what makes fifth graders cheer? would you believe math? >> i'm starting to really like math now. >> reporter: these kids are learning with the help of khan academy, an online school. >> you got it right, good job. >> reporter: videos that are interactive and fun, explaining difficult concepts in a conversational way. >> so if you want the slope of a line -- >> reporter: khan academy is the brainchild of 34-year-old sal khan. >> everything in my gut says that's the right way education should move in the future. >> reporter: in 2004 he started tutoring his cousin in math. >> so this is it. >> reporter: she was out of state, so he coached her online, from a closet in his home. now studying premed at

if i were to avail myself of the privacy option -- and there are a lot of people at mit who are extremely paranoid. they will not bank on line. it is just too inconvenient not to do that. one thing i do is, i multiplied myself online. go find the real me. i have probably 40 or 50 e-mail addresses. >> some of your research focuses on the regulatory environment. how would you describe the regulatory environment right now? >> i think it is an environment in transition. i organized a workshop with international support in 1998 focusing on internet policy of the future. the largest regulatory phenomenon is the notion that the markets do a better job than centralized planning. i absolutely agree with that. the whole economic profession agrees with that with a few exceptions. i think what we're trying to struggle through now is how do differently regulate. we are in a big transition that is ongoing. we are not in a position to tear the regulatory house down completely and say we want nothing there, but we have not figured out how to apply it to the internet, the new central infrastructure that w

twenty years is that nobody has been building them so now you're going to get a situation which i think mit might turn into a rerun of the kind of controversies of the first generation of nuclear plants in the late sixty's and seventy's when the public was the really unhappy about a lot of these plans and we may well find that happens again i thank you very much . sports is political in ways we don't often even notice especially on the level of culture where our ideas and attitudes as a society are shaped. when it. comes to the ties between professional football and the u.s. military have existed since the start of the n.f.l. back in one thousand scrawny that relationship her immensely during world war two and today that is stronger than ever. your intention is to kill all in all it all feel pressure until you feel a little bit of recent history has taught us the sports is never just something that we just sit back and mock the sports always had an important social function and the history of american sports is no different. from. download the official autopsy on placation job on the phone

is a crisis why because we use mathematical formulas that some pimply faced fifteen year old kid at mit says makes this trillion dollars at the rutles garbage worth something other than worthless garbage guess what is worthless garbage and that's why suburbs going to five hundred people you're all going to lose all the article points out by reaching for its nuclear option. e.c.b. also helped rewrite the manual of modern central banking calling it a revolution but i would say that in fact it's skip the revolution part and just gone straight to the reign of terror these are what central banks are doing it's a reign of terror that they are raining down upon us they think they can reinvent the entire idea of economics from scratch because they're deeply in debt and they are really interpret ing the fact that they're in debt and they're calling it something else it's delusional it's the stockholm syndrome. it's highly illegal according to any dictates that would cover counterfeiting what these banks are doing these central banks are doing are counterfeiting their counterfeiting by their tril

and to hockey first where western leaders like mit of destroyed in the moments came the last game of their best of seven series and the russians were hoping for an upset in euro small but ended up and seeding six goals the hosts storming out to a suzi or a lead up to just six minutes and the loss of poor in the final period local will pace does not carry gun next in the call friends semifinals so there is just one more they can spot left in the last eight and it will be occupied either by one guard or have to he make that game starts in just over one hour's time in. russian football fans are awaiting the start of the prolonged primary season next saturday then the town says things off by the super cowboy oh it wasn't worse he takes a look at the teams ahead of the clash which to which starts in a few minutes time. russia's top two clubs will be battling across nagar on sunday two thousand and ten leaving cope with the meet or face and plenty of injury concerns manager luciano the lady only has fifteen players to choose from for the upcoming encounter the strikers alexandre cure coffi