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Hedrick Smith: Program Outlines

Terrorism


Mr. Smith constantly refreshes his repertoire of speech topics with new reporting for the flow of PBS specials that he has been producing since 1988. His most recent PBS production, Inside the Terror Network, for PBS Frontline, and his long experience covering American foreign policy as well as time in Cairo as a Times correspondent, position him well to talk about American policy and strategy in the wake of Sept. 11.

Work and Family


He has drawn another current lecture topic from another new PBS production, Juggling Work and Family, which PBS broadcast nationwide in late 2001 and again in January 2002. This broadcast is an outgrowth of Mr. Smith's two PBS mini-series on the impact of the global economy on the American middle class. In this, as in other lectures on domestic problems in America, Mr. Smith deliberately focuses not only on chronic difficulties in American life but also on solutions to these problems being forged on the ground by American companies, unions and communities, as well as analysis of some of the public policy initiatives in this field.

Education


A third current topic benefits from Hedrick Smith's decade-long interest in effective educational reform and reporting on schools and teaching that has taken him to three continents, studying both America's competitors but some successful models of public school education in the United States. Tapped as the keynote speaker to a conference of the National Commission on Educational Goals, Mr. Smith reinforces the insights gained from years of reporting on educational issues with graphic, on-location video clips of both problems and models of success.

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