Education

Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring a discussion of how oil prices are driven up by speculators, a commentary on the theft of education from the poor, a review of the politics of "The Lorax," and a report on attempts by wealthy liberal donors to buy a p... Read more

Stealing Education

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

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red Frann Michel discusses the case of Tanya McDowell, a homeless, Black single mother, sentenced to 12 years in prison in Connecticut for using her babysitter's address to enroll her son in a Norwalk school. Frann details the many ways in which governments and... Read more

Out Loud on Tues March 6

Airs at: Tue, 03/06/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

Tonight we feature local change agents working on making impacts in our larger communities. Before we welcomed our first guest, we took a music break with 'Una Mujer' from Renee Muzquiz's CD "Gay in Texas". This music was featured in 'Bunkin' with You in the Afterlife', the... Read more

stealing an education

[for the 3/12/12 Mole] What does it mean to steal an education? According to several school districts, it means providing questionable address information, at least if you're Black. Jen Roesch, writing in SocialistWorker.org, reports on the case of Tanya McDowell, a hom... Read more

Jessie Klein, author of "The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America 's Schools"

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Jessie Klein, author of The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America 's Schools. Based on extensive research and interviews with wide-ranging bullying victims, and backed by her decades of experie... Read more