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 AUDIO
SALES CATALOG • 1999-2000
This
listing highlights the guests and topics of 26 Programs.
Programs: 1-6
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 Peg
Portscheller |
Frank Newman |
It's
a Man's World: Women and the Superintendency
Peg Portscheller of the Lake County School District
in Colorado
and Bess Keller of Education Week,
discuss why there aren't more women in the superintendency.
Recorded: 1.11.00
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Teaching
Civic Responsibility
Our county's high school seniors will
all be eligible to vote in the next presidential election.
But will they? Frank Newman, Visiting Professor of Public
Policy and Sociology at Brown University, and two college
students talk about teaching America's youth to become
active citizens.
Recorded: 1.11.00
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James Garbarino |
Michael Gurian |
Lynn Olson |
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Are
Boys in Trouble?
James
Garbarino, Co-Director of the Family Life Development
Center at Cornell University and author of Lost Boys:
Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them,
and author and family therapist Michael Gurian talk about
violent boys who have made headlines all over the country.
Recorded:
1.11.00
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A
Report on Teacher Quality
Lynn
Olson, Senior Editor at Education Week, talks about the
thousands of unlicensed teachers who are teaching millions of
students all over the country and what the states are doing
about this.
Recorded: 1.11.00
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James Traub |
Kevin Jennings |
The
Limits of School Reform
James Traub, writer for the
New York Times magazine, shares
his controversial views on the real limits of what school can
do to cure poverty.
Recorded: 1.25.00
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Teaching
Tolerance: Gay and Lesbian Students
Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian
& Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and two high school
students talk about how schools are dealing with issues
of sexual orientation and the harassment of gay and lesbian
students.
Recorded: 1.25.00
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Chris Whittle |
Robert Johnston |
Steve Drummond
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Running
Public Schools for a Profit?
Entrepreneur
Chris Whittle believes he can run public schools with tax dollars
and make a profit.
Recorded: 2.1.00
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How are Schools Financed?
Steve Drummond and Robert Johnston from
Education Week explain how schools are financed.
Recorded: 2.1.00
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Frank McCourt |
John Goodlad |
Talking
to the Teacher
Frank
McCourt reads excerpts from his book and talks about school
bureaucrats, Catcher in the Rye, and being a high school
teacher.
Recorded: 2.8.00
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Does
School Reform equal Reform School?
Veteran educator John Goodlad talks about
why he thinks proponents of reform, who are calling for
standards and accountability are taking schools in the
wrong direction.
Recorded: 2.8.00
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Linda Sax |
Bob McCannon |
A
Survey of College Freshmen Reveals New Trends
Linda Sax, Associate Director of the UCLA Higher Education Research
Institute's Annual Survey, talks about
the attitudes and behaviors of college freshman.
Recorded: 2.5.00
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Media
Literacy
Bob
McCannon, director of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
and one of the country's leading proponents of 'media
literacy', discusses how to recognize the hidden messages
in what children see, hear, and read.
Recorded:
2.5.00
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Vivian Paley |
Lisa Delpit |
Vivan
Paley, author of White Teacher
Do
white teachers need special training to teach non-white children?
Does a teacher's race matter?
Recorded: 2.2.00
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Lisa
Delpit, author of Other People's Children
Lisa
Delpit, holder of the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban
Educational Excellence at Georgia State University,
talks about race in the classroom.
Recorded: 2.2.00 |
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Rachel Tompkins |
Thomas Jandris |
Luyen Chou |
Does
Size Matter?
Rachel Tompkins, President of the Rural School
and Community Trust , completed a new study that finds that
small schools have a positive effect on student achievement.
Recorded: 2.29.00 |
Mayors
Taking Charge
Tom Jandris of the Education Commission
of the States talks about what's behind this trend of
mayoral control of failing schools.
Recorded: 2.29.00
Learning in the Digital Age
Luyen Chou, founder of Learn Technologies, talks about
exciting new developments in educational technology and
how it will change teaching and learning.
Recorded: 2.29.00
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