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Hear me yak on WMUB radio
Unfortunately, I had some technical difficulties on the blog that prevented me from alerting you in advance to my appearance this morning on WMUB’s Forum program. I was on with Bill Cohen, a public radio reporter in Columbus, talking about Gov. Ted Strickland’s community “conversations” on education, being held in 14 cities around the state. (See my coverage of Strickland’s meeting in Dayton here and here.)
You can hear the show again tonight at 7 p.m. WMUB is a public radio station in Oxford, Ohio. You can hear the show in the Dayton area on 88.5 FM.
Later today the show should be posted on the station’s website.
Give the show a listen and then tell us what you think in the comments here.
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By Mary
August 15, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this
The show covered a interesting range of education topics and comments from the audience that I think are very important - gifted ed, funding, levies, value added, results, etc. However, I almost had the feeling the comments and questions were orchestrated just like other dog and pony shows. I was pleasantly surprised that some gifted ed issues even made it on the radar screen. Scott, I think you made the gifted issues sound better in suburban schools than they really are. The last caller, Christopher, I really enjoyed. He pointed out people used to be a lot more literate for a lot less money. While I agreed with some of your answer, Scott, I think there is too much noise introduced into the education system by schools themselves. I do not think it is mainly disfunctional families. The school environment itself is unfocused and disfunctional. The book “Schools that do too much” provides a good description and discussion on what I am talking about.