Education
#532 In need of a new paradigm (Education)
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Act 1: Are College Students Now ONLY Taught How To F**K The Little Guy – Lee Camp Air Date: 6-20-11
Song 1: Pride (In the Name of Love) – The Best of 1980-1990
Act 2: Heaping of scorn on teachers – Counterspin
Song 2: Honest Man – Ladders
Act 3: Teachers: On The Frontlines Of Class War – Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 7-08-11
Song 3: I Gave You All – Sigh No More
Act 4: Unbelievably Cool Group From High School Still Unbelievably Cool – The Onion
Song 4: How It Ends – How It Ends
Act 5: States budgeting for ignorance – Jim Hightower
Song 5: Ignore the Ignorant – Ignore the Ignorant
Act 6: Man Volunteers For $800,000 Pay Cut To Help Students – Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
Song 6: Gonna Fly Now – The Rocky Story
Act 7: School Board Votes To Allow Teasing Of Area Sixth-Grader – The Onion
Song 7: Kids – Oracular Spectacular
Act 8: Making Scholastic Inc. shape up – Jim Hightower Air Date: 9-2-11
Song 8: A Little Piece – Dark Storm – EP
Act 9: Tha Gretest Challenje Faceng The Unitid Stayts – Lee Camp Air Date: 6-29-11
Song 9: New Slang – Garden State (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 10: Spelling-Bee Winner Fails To Spell Way Out Of Schoolyard Beating – The Onion
Song 10: Me and Julio down by the school yard – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 11: High expectations lead to better results in education – Young Turks Air Date: 7-25-11
Song 11: Expectations (Remastered) – Juno (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 12: Are Our Schools Crushing Creativity – Lee Camp Air Date: 7-06-11
Song 12: Vincent – American Pie
Act 13: Changing Education Paradigms – Sir Ken Robinson
Voicemails:
Tar sands action campaign call to action – Andrew from Brooklyn, NY
Thoughts on how inflation is actually calculated – Alex from Redding PA
Thoughts on kids being used for politics – Keith from Chicago
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on why Pat Robertson is right (just this once)
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms – Sir Ken Robinson
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#426 The system is damaged but our expectations are broken (Education)
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Edition #426
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Act 1: Update on crazy Texas textbook changes – Young Turks
Song 1: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – On the Good Ship Lollipop
Act 2: Peabody Public Schools – Colbert Report
Song 2: Classical gas – Vanessa Mae
Act 3: Waiting for superman an teacher unions – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
Act 4: Something is really wrong with our education system – Young Turks
Song 4: Trigonometry – Nascent
Act 5: Are tests biased against kids who don’t give a shit? – The Onion
Song 5: Care – Kid Rock
Act 6: Education coverage is anti-teacher – Counterspin
Song 6: Am I Wrong – Love Spit Love
Act 7: Davis Guggenheim – Colbert Report
Song 7: You Learn – Jagged Little Pill
Act 8: LA Times calls out school teachers – Young Turks
Song 8: The Gambler – The Gambler
Act 9: Beating up on teacher unions – Counterspin
Song 9: These days – Luxury
Act 10: Eighth-grade reading list favors stuff that sucks – The Onion
Song 10: The Revenge of Holden Caufield – Progression – EP
Act 11: Cenk on US education failure and potential – MSNBC
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Glenn Beck Hates Education – Young Turks
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#351 I’s on Edjukashun (Education)
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Edition #351
Act 1: Earning is fundamental – Colbert Report
Act 2: Child so stupid she sees letters backwards – The Onion
Act 3: Arne Duncan on US education reform – Colbert Report
Act 4: James Loewen on education – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Bill Gates on education reform – Daily Show
Act 6: Al Sharpton on education as a civil right – Colbert Report
Act 7: Right wing text books coming to US students – Young Turks
Act 8: Rules grammar change – The Onion
Act 9: Texas school board hearings – Colbert Report
Act 10: Don’t mess with textbooks – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Teach Sex Ed in Wisconsin, Go To Jail – Young Turks
Music:
The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance – Vampire Weekend
Cello Song (feat. Jose Gonzalez) – The Books
World spins madly on – The Weepies
Love will come through – Travis
My little runaway – Del Shannon
Throwing stones – Shout Out Louds
I need to know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Sometimes I rhyme slow – Nice & Smooth
Hey Ya – Obadiah Parker
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