Education

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	Starting Out Right: Upgrading Early Childhood Education Karabelle Pizzigati, Independent Child and Family Policy Adviser; Immediate Past President of the National Association of State Boards of Education Mimi Howard, Program Director, Education Commission of the States Harriet Dichter, Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Public Welfare Joni Close, President, Sisters of Charity, Canton, Ohio Henrietta Zalkind, Executive Director of the Down East Partnership for Children Christine Russel, Parent Marcia Turner, Grandparent (Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)	160kbps 96kbps Promo Minicast Cue sheet	Listen now
	Teach Your Children Well: Reforming Education in Schools and Society Matt Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Joe Marx, Senior Communications Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mark Roosevelt, Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools Barbara Wasik, Principal Research Scientist for the Johns Hopkins Early Learning Project Literacy Project Group Interview, with Pete Powell of the Lockhart Vaughan Foundation, Karen Kreisberg of the Zanvyl & Isabelle Krieger Fund, and Betsy Nelson, Executive Director, Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers Marcia Lawrence, Head Start Teacher, John Hopkins Language and Literacy Project David Cohn, winner of the "Young Creator Award" for Spot Journalism Gary Kebel, Journalism Program Director for the Knight Foundation Richard Anderson, Winner for Open Source Community News (Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)	160kbps 96kbps Promo Cue Sheet	Listen now
	Ready, Set, Spell! Preparing Our Kids for Success in School Jonasha Sanders, Atlanta kindergarten teacher and parent of a SPARK child Emily Darnell-Nunez, New Mexico SPARK Coordinator Gil Sanchez, New Mexico Integrated Services in Schools Initiative School Specialist Robert Stark, Executive Director for SPARK New Mexico Gerry Cobb, National Technical Assistance Center Director for Smart Start North Carolina Greg Taylor, Vice President for Programs, Youth & Education – W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)		Listen now
	Failing Our Kids, Failing Our Future: Reversing the Decline of California's Public Schools Jeremiah Jeffries, Teacher, Sherman Elementary School, San Francisco Erik Hanushek, Researcher and Educational Specialist, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Susanna Loeb, Researcher and Educational Specialist, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Stephen Blake, Executive Director, Governorâ€™s Advisory Committee on Educational Excellence, Sacramento Jack O'Connell, California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sacramento Donn Harris, Principal of The School of the Arts and Principal of The Academy of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco (No full interviews are available for this program.)		Listen now
	Lost in Translation: The Challenge of Bilingual Education Maria Orozco, Parent, San Jose, CA Russ Rumberger, Director, The University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA Lisa Jeffery, Principal, Sixty-Sixth Street Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA Maria S. Quezada, Executive Director, California Association for Bilingual Education, Los Angeles, CA Chaz Garcia, Teacher, Esperanza Elementary School, Oakland, CA		Listen now
	For the Love of Learning: Great Teachers, Great Schools Chaz Garcia, Third Grade Teacher, Esperanza Elementary School, Oakland, CA Ken Futernick, Professor of Education, California State University, Sacramento, CA Fannie Brown, Parent, Oakland, CA Casey D’Angelo, Superintendent, Wright Elementary School District, Santa Rosa, CA Seth Leslie, Math Teacher, East Palo Alto High, East Menlo Park, CA		Listen now
	Diversity Denied: Reversing the Resegregation of American Education Anurima Bhargava, Gary Orfield, Karen Narasaki, Judith Winston		Listen now
	Dropout Nation: Failing Schools, Failing Students Russlynn Ali, Founding Director, Education Trust-West, Oakland, CA Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Executive Director, Community Coalition, Los Angeles, CA Julie Mendoza, Director of Research and Evaluation for the University of California College Prep Initiative, Los Angeles, CA Becky Danisch, Retired High School Teacher, Crystal Lake, IL (clicking on a guest's name opens their full interview audio file)		Listen now
	The New 3R's: Repairing, Redesigning, and Rebuilding Our Public Schools Maria Brenes, Christopher Cabaldon, Steve Jubb, Samantha Knox, Jeannie Oakes, Solomon Rivera, Eddie Tackett		Listen now
	Separate and Unequal: Funding for Failure in California's Public Schools Mark Baldassare, Paul Bressoud, Patricia Gandara, W. Norton Grubb, Rosita Martinez, Sehba Zumkhawala		Listen now