BWW Exclusive: First Look - Anna Deavere Smith's Latest Work Featured in New PBS TED TALKS Special

Hosted by best-selling author and comedian Baratunde Thurston and actress, musician and activist actress Sara Ramirez, TED Talks: Education Revolution explores new and innovative approaches to learning and teaching. TED Talks: Education Revolution premieres Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) as part of SPOTLIGHT EDUCATION week on PBS. Below, BWW shares an exclusive first look at the special!

Filmed live at New York's The Town Hall theater, these new TED Talks brings together a wide range of cutting edge thinkers, performers, entrepreneurs, and educators. TED Talks: Education Revolution features performances by singer/songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello and host Sara Ramirez, and three original short films produced by Independent Television Service (ITVS): • Modern Classroom, by Greg Whiteley, which proposes a radical rethinking of the traditional classroom model, largely unchanged since the Industrial Revolution; • Freedom University, by Heather Courtney and Anayansi Prado, about an alternative college program in Georgia for undocumented students shut out of the state's university system; and •Unconscious Bias, by Geeta Gandbhir and Perri Peltz, about how bias can sneak up on us when we least expect it.

TED Talks: Education Revolution is a co-production of TED and ITVS for PBS. TED Talks: Education Revolution is curated by Chris Anderson and Juliet Blake. The executive producer is Juliet Blake and Allen Kelman is the producer. TED content director is Kelly Stoetzel. Executive producers for ITVS are Tamara Gould and Sally Jo Fifer. TED Talks: Education Revolution is directed by Linda Mendoza. Funded by the CPB, this special is the third in a series of three TED Talks specials for public media in 2016.

More information is available at pbs.org/tedtalks.