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 AUDIO
SALES CATALOG • 2000-2001
This
listing highlights the guests and topics of 26 Programs.
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Ted Fiske
Helen Ladd |
Experimenting
with Choice
Former New York Times Editor Ted Fiske
and Public
Policy expert Helen Ladd tell us what
America has to learn from New Zealand's experiment with school
choice.
Recorded: 8.23.00
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Diane Ravitch |
Choosing
Excellence
John Merrow talks to Diane Ravitch, one of the
most well-respected educators in the county, about what constitutes
an excellent school.
Recorded:
8.15.00
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Harold Levy |
An
Outsider Takes Control of New York Public Schools
Levy, Chancellor of New York City schools, talks
about what his corporate sensibility and no-nonsense approach
are up against.
Recorded: 10.3.00
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Ron
Suskind |
A
Hope in the Unseen
Suskind talks about how chronicling one boy's
struggle has informed his own perspective on the debate over
poverty, race, and affirmative action in America.
Recorded:
9.25.00
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Judy Browne
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Does
Zero Tolerance Make Zero Sense?
Across the country, schools with zero tolerance
policies are suspending and expelling students in record numbers–
often for minor infractions.
Recorded:
10.3.00 |
Caroline Hoxby |
Economics
of School Choice
One argument for school vouchers is based on
the theory that consumer choice, in an open market system, will
foster competition and drive up the quality of the product–
in this case, schools.
Recorded:
9.25.00
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Censorship
and Children's Literature
Author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, whose Alice books
were the second most-banned books of 1999, discusses sex, censorship
and children's lit.
Recorded:
11.2.00
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Nicholas Lemann |
The
Big Test
Nick Lemann, staff writer at The New Yorker
and author of The Big Test, recounts the amazing history
of the controversial test that has come to dominate college
admissions.
Recorded:
8.24.00
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Larry Cuban |
Technology–
A Revolution in Learning?
Education
historian Larry Cuban says computers and
the internet have not actually changed the way teachers teach
and students learn--at least not yet.
Recorded:
10.19.00
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Richard Rothstein |
The
Way We Weren't
Richard Rothstein argues that there was no "golden
age" of education: that in fact Americans are better educated
today than they ever have been in the past.
Recorded:
11.1.00
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Ellen Winner |
Arts
Education and Academic Achievement
A new study looks at the relationship between
the arts and academic performance and suggests that we may be
asking the wrong questions.
Recorded:
11.1.00
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Murray Sperber |
Are
College Sports Destroying Undergraduate Education?
Author Murray Sperber argues that "Beer and Circus"
- or partying and spectator sports - are the only two things
that interest the majority of university students today.
Recorded:
10.19.00
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Neil Howe |
The
Millennial Generation
Historian Neil Howe says that the generation
born since 1982 - what he calls the millennial generation -
is poised for greatness on a global scale.
Recorded:
11.15.00
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John McWhorter |
Are
Blacks 'Losing the Race'?
Professor John McWhorter makes the assertion
that the primary cause of the achievement gap between African
Americans and Whites is an anti-academic ethos that pervades
African American culture.
Recorded:
10.19.00
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Claude Steele |
Black/White
Achievement Gap
Psychologist Claude Steele discusses the factors
that may be contributing to the high drop out rates and low
test scores of African-American students.
Recorded: 10.10.00
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Morris Berman |
Twilight
of American Culture
Morris Berman discusses why he thinks the educational
"crisis" is not just about bad schools.
Recorded:
11.1.00
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Inside
College Admissions
What goes on behind the closed doors of a college
admissions office? Who gets in, who doesn't and why?
Recorded:
11.15.00
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Sal Severe |
How
to 'Behave'
In his 25 years working with "behavior-disordered"
children, Sal Severe
has found the most effective way to improve children's behavior
is to work on their parents' bad habits.
Recorded:
11.11.00
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