Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Books
Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming Nation Guide to the Nation, with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst and Obama's education choice.
2008
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Beware School 'Reformers'
Alfie Kohn
School reform could take on new meaning if Obama's secretary of education is actually an educator.
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A Lesson for the Next President
Demitrious Sinor : Presidential Election 2008
Will our next president have the courage to scrap No Child Left Behind?
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The Conscious Classroom
Adam Doster
A new generation of educators, frustrated with ineffective reforms, turns to pedagogy focused on social justice.
2007
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Shanker Blows Up the World
The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.
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School's Out
LynNell Hancock : Standardized Testing
The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
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Evaluating 'No Child Left Behind'
The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.
2006
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Katrina's Last Victims?
Lisa Delpit & Charles Payne : Charter Schools
The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.
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Playing Politics at School
Hasdai Westbrook : Drug Policy/Drug War
Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.
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Leave No Tax Cheat Behind
If President Bush and the Republican Congress would close the loopholes on tax cheats--especially the superrich--there would be ample money to improve the quality of education in the nation's public schools.
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Doing Lunch
Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.
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Rebels With a Cause
Gary Younge : Student Movements
A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the US.
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Science and the First Amendment
Patricia J. Princehouse : 1st Amendment
If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That's why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democracy itself.
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UCLA's Dirty Thirty
Jon Wiener : Student Movements
Negative media coverage has succeeded in undermining support among prominent conservatives for a UCLA alumni group that paid students to target and expose left-leaning faculty.
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Education Mobilization
Major Owens : State of the Union
Establish a first-rate education system to draw on our greatest untapped human resource: the children of our inner cities.
2005
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Overcoming Apartheid
Jonathan Kozol : African-Americans
Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a failure, effective programs across the country still survive--and deserve to thrive.
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Darwin on Trial
Eyal Press : Religious Fundamentalism
As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate on science and religion. But a look at the town and its residents show that the battle may not be so clearly defined.
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Before School
San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco's initiative could make preschool as commonplace as kindergarten.
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NYU's Poison Ivy Itch
When one of New York's biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it's hardly an internal matter.
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Failing Students, Rising Profits
The Community Education Partners (CEP) serves students the public schools don't want--and it makes millions.
2004
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The Issue Left Behind
Linda Perlstein : Presidential Election 2004
Why the candidates won't talk about education.
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Keep the Promise to Our Children
Robert L. Borosage : George W. Bush Administration
The largest mobilization ever for public schools has one simple demand.
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Schwarzenegger's Education Failures
Shane Paul Goldmacher : California
The Governor is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California.
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