Kathy Moore

Austin, Texas By the time Alvaro Quintero and Jose Rodriguez reached the end of their senior year, they were no longer Alvaro and Jose. “Before we left, we got our names changed to Harvard and Yale, respectively,” Rodriguez recalled. “That is how we were referred to.” At once they had lost their familiar identity in […]

(Austin, Texas) The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. — science fiction writer William Gibson, The Economist , Dec. 4, 2003 That famous quote flashed across the screen during bestselling author and game designer Jane McGonigal’s Wednesday keynote (How to Think Like A Futurist) at the South by Southwest Education Conference […]

Nashville, Tennessee IDEA Public Schools was awarded the $250,000 Broad Prize Monday for its efforts to inject hope and opportunity into the educational lives of some 24,000 mostly Hispanic and low-income Texas students in San Antonio, Austin and the Rio Grande Valley. Accepting the award, co-founder and CEO Tom Torkelson gave an impassioned speech in […]

See previous 74 interviews, including former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, tennis great and charter school developer Andre Agassi, and psychiatrist, best-selling author, and TV commentator Gail Saltz. The full archive is here. Rory Kennedy is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose latest project in many ways harks back to one of her earliest, […]

When the Today show hosts decided to be teachers for a day for this year’s Back to School feature, they swept into the classrooms — and the playground and cafeteria — of a school that has seen a remarkable academic turnaround. “A few years ago, it was one of the schools that was faltering. Many of t…