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Steaming Kettle closes

Description: Environs shots for story on Steaming Kettle coffee shop closing. Downtown environs, Summer Street at Winter Street. People, traffic, buildings around Downtown Crossing. Jordan Marsh Company sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1990

Stephen Hawking

Description: British cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who has Lou Gehrig's disease, holds Q+A at Northeastern. He communicates by computer glossary / speech synthesizer fixed to wheelchair. Universe, Big Bang.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/29/1990

Stills of Boston 1850-1920

Description: Subway maps from Boston Transit Commission. Archival photos of downtown Boston and environs 1850-1920. Park Street, Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, Copley Square, Bowdoin Square, Tremont, School, Arlington, and Newbury Streets, Commonwealth Avenue, Washington Street, Scollay Square, India Wharf, State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1977

Street signs and generics

Description: KENMORE BUS, BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL, STREET SIGNS: NO PARKING, TOW ZONE, SCHOOL ZONE, CAMBRIDGE STREET, WARREN STREET
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1986

Striped bass

Description: Striped bass IN NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM TANK. (no exteriors)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/28/1984

Student mediation

Description: Students at Boston Technical and Madison Park High Schools learn mediation techniques to settle disputes and prevent violence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1991

Subway tunnel photos

Description: B+W archival photos of subway tunnel construction in downtown Boston, vicinity of Boylston and Tremont Streets, East Boston, Massachusetts Avenue, Broadway, Dorchester Avenue, Copley Square. Horse drawn trolley. Early MBTA tracks underground. circa 1895-1896 and later.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1977

Suggestions for Boston school board

Description: Ellen Guiney, Lloyd King, Ted Landsmark tell what is lacking in Boston school reform after Mayor Flynn requests appointed school board. They say parent involvement, diversity, accountability are needed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1991

Supt. Marion Fahey interview

Description: Pam Bullard interviews Marion Fahey (Superintendent, Boston Public Schools). Fahey talks about the assignment of bus monitors and school aides for the coming school year. Fahey explains the roles of transitional aides, security aides and instructional aides. She says that there will also be more special needs aides and bilingual aides in the schools. Fahey comments on the need for all students to attend school in order to learn basic skills. She says that parents should be confident in the educational programs at the Boston public schools. Tape 2 of 2.
0:00:13: Visual: Pam Bullard interviews Marion Fahey (Superintendent, Boston Public Schools) in her office. Fahey sits behind her desk. Fahey says that bus monitors will ride the buses with students again this year; that parents have made it clear that they want bus monitors on the buses with their children. Fahey says that there will be just as many aides this year as in previous years; that there will be fewer transitional aides in the school buildings; that transitional aides will perform duties assigned to them by the headmasters of the schools. Fahey says that the transitional aides will be supplemented by security aides from the Safety and Security Department; that the security aides have additional training in dealing with crises. Fahey says that there will be many instructional aides in the classrooms; that instructional aides will be funded under Title I of the Emergency School Assistance Act; that instructional aides will work with elementary and middle school students in reading and math. Fahey says that there will be bilingual aides as well as aides for the special needs programs in the schools. Bullard asks Fahey what she would tell parents who are skeptical about the quality of the Boston Public Schools. Fahey says that it is important for parents to send their children to school; that parents who keep their children out of school are condemning their children to an unproductive future. Fahey says that the Boston Public Schools have strong educational programs; that school faculty and staff are always working to improve school programs; that students in the Boston Public Schools receive good instruction in basic skills like reading, math and communication. Bullard closes the interview. 0:04:53: V: Bullard and Fahey speak informally. Fahey says that Boston schools are no longer in the "numbers game." Fahey notes that the focus is no longer on desegregation; that her staff is focusing on assessing the performance of students and teachers; that the tension caused by school desegregation hindered classroom learning. Shot of a spreadsheet on Fahey's desk. The spreadsheet gives the racial breakdown of students in each grade level.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1976

Surgical ICU

Description: Surgical intensive care unit at Boston City Hospital. Patient with bandaged head in bed, with tubes and monitors. Masked nurse attending.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1983