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SALES CATALOG • 2000-2001
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listing highlights the guests and topics of 26 Programs.
Programs: 1-6
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Howard Gardner |
Truth,
Beauty and Goodness
Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences,
talks about the pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness in education.
Recorded: 8.23.00
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Michael Kirst |
No
More SATs?
Scholar Michael Kirst discusses the future of
standardized testing in the college admissions process.
Recorded: 3.7.01 |
James
Stigler |
Teaching
Gap: Do Other Countries Do it Better?
UCLA psychologist James Stigler thinks he has
at least a partial explanation for the learning gap: he says
there's a teaching gap.
Recorded: 3.5.01
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Richard
Rhodes |
Why
They Kill
Pulitzer prize winner Richard Rhodes contests
the idea that exposure to media violence makes kids more violent.
Recorded: 10.3.00
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David Walsh |
Violence
and the Media
David Walsh, founder of the National Institute
on Media and the Family, dicusses the possible link between
entertainment violence and real violence.
Recorded: 9.25.00
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David Levin |
KIPP
Academy: Doing Something Right
David Levin, principal of KIPP, and three KIPP
students talk about why long hours, strict discipline and summer
classes are worth the effort.
Recorded: 8.22.00
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Harvey Silverglate |
Is
Freedom of Speech in Danger on College Campuses?
When it comes to race and gender, how tolerant
are universities of dissenting opinions?
Recorded: 8.18.00
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Diane Ravitch |
A
Century of Failed School Reforms
Historian Diane Ravitch talks about her new book,
Left Back, in which she traces the origins of the ongoing
debates over progressive versus traditional education.
Recorded: 8.15.00
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Jack
Jennings |
Good
News about Public Education?
Jack Jennings talks about some steady signs of
improvement in our public schools and why Americans seem determined
to ignore them.
Recorded:
8.22.00
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Alfie Kohn |
Choosing
Excellence
John Merrow talks to Alfie Kohn, one of the
most well-respected educators in the county, about what constitutes
an excellent school.
Recorded: 12.20.99
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Chester Finn |
Special
Education: Good Intentions Gone Awry?
Chester Finn of the Manhattan Institute argues,
that it could be the financial incentives of the Special Education
Program that causes 100,000 students a year to be classified
as learning disabled.
Recorded: 8.22.00
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Jerry Brown |
Jerry
Brown's Crusade
The flamboyant former presidential candidate and governor of
California talks about the merits of school choice, the evils
of government regulation, and why the disastrous state of Oakland's
education system is an example of "liberalism run amuck."
Recorded: 9.18.00
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E. D. Hirsch |
Choosing
Excellence
John Merrow talks to E. D. Hirsch, one of
the most well-respected educators in the county, about what
constitutes an excellent school.
Recorded: 6.1.00
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Richard Rodriguez |
Drama
of Assimilation
Richard Rodriguez, author of Hunger
of Memory, talks about his own experience as a "minority"
student and shares his provocative views on bilingual
education, affirmative action, and the model of multiculturalism
now prevalent in American schools and universities.
Recorded: 9.18.00
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Lucinda
Franks |
Sex
Lives of Your Children
Disturbing truths about the sex lives of teens
and explains how American schools are exacerbating an already
critical problem.
Recorded:
9.26.00
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Jonathan Kozol |
Children
in the Years of Hope
Kozol talks about Ordinary Resurrections,
a hopeful new book about children living in the South Bronx.
Recorded:
9.13.00
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Lisa Delpit |
Choosing
Excellence
John Merrow talks to Lisa Delpit, one of the
most well-respected educators in the county, about what constitutes
an excellent school.
Recorded: 4.15.00
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