Education

Old Mole Variety Hour December 24th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts today's Christmas Eve episode. We hear about the Chinese labor movement, the hypocrisy of Obama's mourning at Newtown, the Portland Solidarity Network, and the limits of consumer culture. Bill Resnick interviews Eli Friedman about the Chin... Read more

School Massacres and Drones

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Alan Wieder comments on connection between the Sandy Hook shootings and drone-warfare. He considers the lamentations Americans and its leaders especially offer when certain American children are murdered in the context of drone-warfare and their otherwise disregard for chi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 17, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This show considers schools, killing, killlings in schools, and civil rights and rock & roll. Hosted by Frann Michel, with music by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and more. For information on our graphics, theme song, or name, see our main show page. Frann Michel comments ... Read more

comments on young white men with guns

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here. Read more

Portland Teachers reject High-Stakes Testing: Gwen Sullivan of PAT

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Portland Association of Teachers president Gwen Sullivan about why Portland Public Schools turned down federal grant money. Although it might have provided funding for further professional development for reading teachers, the one-time grant c... Read more

UnFairTest: Monty Neill on Problems with High-Stakes Testing

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Monty Neill of FairTest about how high-stakes standardized testing undermines real learning and discourages critical and creative thinking. They discuss more reliable, collaborative, and contextually-sensitive ways of evaluating teachers and stu... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 3rd 2012

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: A Categorized Program Not

Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Chris Toensing about the future of Palestine Alan Weider comments on Obama's neoliberal "deformist" education policies Joe Clement interviews Kathi Weeks about her book on "The P... Read more

Obama's Deformist Education Policies

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Alan Weider offers this incisive commentary on the Obama Administration's "race to the top" education program and the way that it commodifies education. Read more

"Plastic Free: How I kicked the Plastic Habit and How You can Too" with author Beth Terry

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Recovery Zone

Millions of us consider our use of plastic a perfectly normal part of everyday life. We purchase and toss out our plastic products and packaging without giving it a second thought. But Beth Terry began thinking about it in 2007, and when she learned about the toxicity and e... Read more