Presenting science isn't just a matter of foreign policy, or even of better high school textbooks. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman tells Judith Strasser about other ideas for catching the public fancy. She tells Judith Strasser how the producers decide what their topics will be. We'll also hear from the internationally acclaimed BBC science producer David Attenborough, who tells Jim Fleming about the beauty of time- lapse photography and how it changed his understanding of biology. Being a teenager in America isn't what it used to be.
Humes follows the court system and the kids who go through it.
Stephen O'Conner is a creative writing teacher in the New York City public schools. He tells Steve Paulson how in the beginning he shared the common view that kids didn't want to write, but he was surprised and pleased to discover they just didn't like what they were being asked to write about. Once he asked for something relevant to their lives, everything changed. Meanwhile, in Hawaii, David Nakada was discovering the value of wilderness expeditions for kids in transition. He tells Judith Strasser about the effects of this rite of passage.