About
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED2008
- Speaker
- Dave Eggers
- Year
- 2008
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design, Teaching and learning
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
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