Education

Yong Zhao on Neoliberal Education in the Chinese and American Contexts

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Yong Zhao about high-stakes testing and related neoliberal education paradigms in China, and why there is resistance to it. They consider the danger of narrowing education with definitions of success tied to tests and quantifiable methods. Yong Zhao... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 16 June 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this show about the tensions between possible futures--either ruled by military and corporate power or else organized as cooperative community. We hear these segments: Joseph DeFilipppis: Beyond Marriage Equality Checking in on Border Checkpoints Bill R... Read more

Myths About Public Schools

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In thrall to those who want to take public schools out of public hands and make a profit from them, the mass media is filled with claims that public schools and teachers are failing. David Berliner talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick and makes it clear that public ... Read more

19 May 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode, which includes a discussion of the fight for the $15/hour minimum wage in Portland and beyond, a report on economics students around the world demanding alternatives to failed neoclassical orthodoxies, a review of a memoir of life in the West,... Read more

Title IX and campus rape

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile, Director of the Gender Studies Program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, regarding the use of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act (which guarantees an equal right to education) to address problems of sexual assault on college cam... Read more

Economics Students revolt against neoclassical orthodoxy

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker reads from Pete Dolack's article,"Challenging the Ruling Economic Orthodoxy: Economics Students Begin to Revolt," about the International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics, demanding that schools begin teaching alternatives to neoclassical economic t... Read more

HB Lee Middle School and Caldera

Airs at: Wed, 05/28/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Underground

Erin Yanke of the KBOO Youth Collective was lucky to join Michelle Swinehart at HB Lee Middle School to do an artist residency with the student of Robert Walters Art Classes! Here is the piece we played on the air during the KBOO Youth Collective show. All audio will be pos... Read more

Kathleen O'Brien Interview

Airs at: Sat, 05/17/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

Kathleen O'Brien is a Democrat running for the seat in House District 42. She talked with Don Merrill about her passion for the rights of the disabled, her desire to advance the Progressive agenda in the Oregon legislature and her determination to better support teachers a... Read more

Jackson County GMO-Ban Initiative

Airs at: Wed, 05/14/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

A measure on the ballot in southwest Oregon's Jackson County seeks to ban the cultivation and propagation of genetically modified crops in the county. KBOO's Sam Bouman speaks with Elise Higley of Our Family Farms Coalition, which is leading the initiative, for more informa... Read more

La Grande Domestic Violence Shelter Faces Demolition

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

A domestic violence shelter in La Grande Oregon is facing closure to make way for a new county courthouse in Union county. Shelter From The Storm filed a litigation suit in April to seek resolutions that would minimize the impact of construction on the group’s facility. ... Read more