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Alabama Public Television Only one year after a historic election rerouted the course of America's political culture, do the 2009 election results show momentum swinging in the opposite direction?

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Alabama Public Television APT has tickets for David Koz, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Ricky Skaggs, and Celtic Woman. Order yours today to see a great performance, and support public television.

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Not only will you see a great performance, your ticket purchasewill continue to support APT's mission to motivate children to learn, empower students and teachers to succeed, and provide a lifelong path to knowledge.
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
Ricky Skaggs... Celtic Woman... you've definitely got my attention!
Thu at 5:35am
Krystal Mier Kling
Krystal Mier Kling
Mine too! I love them all !
Thu at 5:51am
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Happy 40th Anniversary to Sesame Street!

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Sesame Street uses animation, puppets, and live actors to stimulate young children's minds, improve their letter and word recognition, basic arithmetic, geometric forms, classification, simple problem solving and socialization by showing children or people in their everyday lives.
Derek Aulden White
Derek Aulden White
Happy Anniversary!! PSSST! Anybody wanna buy a "J". I love that bit..
November 4 at 6:08am
Jeff Grill
Jeff Grill
I remember well the beginning of Sesame Street…my elder daughter started her education there as an infant. Wow, time flies when you're having kids…and grandkids.
November 4 at 7:03am
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television NOVA presents a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special-investigating explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human.

Stephen Nash
Stephen Nash
I am very interested in things like this, but the new "V" starts tonight. I hope that soon PBS will have all three shows on, on a Sunday afternoon.
November 3 at 11:31am
Tonya Bryant

Tonya Bryant I love all the british comedies and all of the cooking shows especially lydia'sItaly
and I hope to keep seeing these programs

October 30 at 9:12am · Report
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
"Yes, Prime Minister" is one of my favorite TV shows. And to be quite honest, that's actually saying a lot -- I may be a filmmaker, but I don't care much for most television networks and programs. But I love P.B.S. and A.P.T.
October 30 at 1:07pm
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Alabama Public Television The Dow's up, but why are Main Street Americans still reeling from last year'seeconomic collapse? With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values, renowned economist James K. Galbraith on whether we've averted another crisis and how to get help for the middle class.

Mark Griffith
Mark Griffith
J.K. Galbraith is an American Keynesian and they are the problem!
October 30 at 7:00am
Jennifer Brown Baker
October 30 at 3:55pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Want to know how Alabama schools are coping with extended budget cuts? Find out tonight at 7pm as Dr. Joe Morton, State Superintendent of Education, joins us to discuss this and other issues surrounding K-12.

Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
On the "how to" practical side, I wish I had a list of easy to do answers and solutions. Unfortunately, it isn't easy. It took us a long time to get to this point and reversing things doesn't happen overnight either. But I am convinced that if parents would start by spending -- make that "investing" -- maybe 10 minutes every evening actually engaging the kids in conversation centered on things like "Tell me something interesting you discovered or learned to do while you were at school today," the kids would slowly start to sense that there must be some reason they were asked. How many times have we heard our kids say things like "I don't know why we have to learn this crap. It's not like we're ever going to use it." Hmmm... never going to need to know multiplication? So, they're about to go gas up the car for a trip and can't even estimate in their heads that roughly 20 gallans of gas at $2.39 a gallon will cost about $48.00. No, they take a $20 bill and just "See where that takes the gas hand." How will they ever budget wisely for bills and groceries if they can't even figure out in their heads "If I spend $60 on these hot new designer jeans, I'll only have $15 left for gas for all of next week." Yet we wonder why they live in constant financial crises. Hello?

I'll be the first to admit it: I HATED history class as a student. Now, I'm totally fascinated by it and I am producing -- LO AND BEHOLD -- a historic documentary film.

Life has a way of making things turn around and slap us dead in the face. We learn what we are interested in. Plain and simple. So how do we begin getting our kids interested in learning the things they ought to be learning in school? We start by taking more interest in our kids and showing them that we are genuinely, deeply, lovingly interested in what they are learning, why they are learning it, and how it affects their futures.... Read More

10 minutes a day. Show me a parent who can't find 10 minutes a day to invest in their kids' futures and I'll bet I can show you a parent who needs to rethink their priorities and look deeply at how they spend their time. Spend that 10 minutes regularly -- and mean it -- and an amazing thing will happen. Over enough time, it will become a habit (yes, that's how habits begin, including the good ones) that turns into 15 minutes. Then 20. Before long, it just becomes something you do at different times throughout the day. It becomes a part of "who you are" as a parent and what your family life is like.

I issue this challenge to all parents: try setting aside 10 minutes every weekday to talk to your kids about what they are learning. Do it for 30 days. You might see some interesting things start happening with their grades and school activities. But only if you handle that 10 minutes wisely and do it regularly. It's not an "I hate this teacher for giving me a bad grade" session. More like "Why do you think learning this could maybe someday come in handy? How can I help you? Call out a few questions for you from the study guide? What can I do?" It works miracles. It doesn't require having to call for a tax referendum on the next ballot, increasing property and/or sales taxes, or anything of the sort. What it takes is interest and effort. And lots of patience. We so easily say "screw this, it ain't working" when we don't see results in a week. We need to get past the instant gratification foolishness and think and act in the interest of long-term improvement. But that's another epistle altogether, which I'll spare you all having to suffer through at this moment.
October 29 at 7:44am
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
Watched the program, which was well done and very informative. It is sad that our schools are in proration, but such are the times. When the going gets tough, the tough get creative and find solutions. They are out there. Overall, I am pleased with what Dr. Morton had to say. Our kids ARE our future. Let us invest wisely (in financial terms and otherwise) in them.
October 30 at 1:05pm
Dan Gunter

Dan Gunter I am very much looking forward to receiving my set of "We Shall Remain" DVD's (hopefully today.) As a part Cherokee, part Seminole, and as a former vice principal chief, I was very impressed by the ACCURACY of the films. As a filmmaker, I was very impressed by the QUALITY. A huge thumbs-up to Public Broadcasting.

Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television What's your relationship with plants? Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book,
this special takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human
relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view.

Kate
Kate
yay
October 28 at 10:24am
Irene
Irene
I'll be watching!
October 28 at 3:21pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television This film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon-from well-to-do bankers to struggling actors, each with a story to tell about how they're getting by in these turbulent times.

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View the Sloss: Industry to Art Trailer -- a new documentary about Sloss Furnaces and Sloss Metal Arts.
Kate
Kate
I love that Tortoise is in the trailer soundtrack!
October 26 at 12:06pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television This film chronicles the year the boom went bust through the words and experiences of the descendants of these titans of finance.

Steve Whitehead
Steve Whitehead
I couldn't be more surprised if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet...Herbert Hoover was a fantastic program!
October 26 at 8:29pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Every year, 35,000 high-school students from around the United States participate in an engineering contest. In GEARING UP, cameras follow each robotics team from the moment officials announce game details (a highly guarded secret) through a six-week "build" period and finally through the regional competitions.

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Alabama Public Television “For The Record” looks at the state of the housing market in
Alabama. For 2009, the number of homes sold is down more than 19% from 2008. The
average selling price has declined a little more than 9.3%. We talk to some local experts about what can be done, as well as tips for both buyers and sellers.

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Alabama Public Television Teachers, students, and whooping crane fans! Follow the Fall Migration of the Whooping Cranes on the web.