Public education is in trouble and nowhere more so than in grades K-12 in California. Will the state's leaders summon the political will to reverse a lost generation of students and school performance? Join us to examine California's failing report card and to consider what it would take to create an educational system worthy of the Golden State's innovative tradition.
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, Governor’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.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Associate Producer: Tammy Rae Scott
Production Engineer: Chuck Johnson
Music in this program: open- "Mansane Cisse" by Habib Koite, Putamayo World Music; welcome- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Yousou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; insert 1- "Bitchenoscopy" by Rickie lee Jones, V2 Records; break 1- "Teach Your Children" by The Country Gentlemen, Rebel Records; insert 2- "Eclipse" by Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band, Evidence Music; break 2- "So You Want to be a Teacher" by Judy Domeny Brown, Round Top Barn Records; bottom of the hour billboard- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Yousou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; insert 3- "Mannenberg" by various artists, ATO Records; break 3- "Education is the Key to Life" by Ronald Robinson, Ronald Robinson Entertainment; and, "Folk Vibe #1" by Tananas, ATO Records, close and credits- "Toyi Toyi" by Abdullah Ibrahim, ATO Records. Other Credits: Clip from "Stand and Deliver" courtesy of Warner Brothers. Sound of quiz show clock courtesy of qwizx.com.
This program was funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
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Sherman Elementary School http://www.shermanschool.org/index.htm was founded in 1892 and ranks in the top 10% among California and San Francisco schools on state-mandated tests.
To find the full Getting Down to Facts report, go to http://irepp.stanford.edu/projects/cafinance.htm. You can access press releases, overviews and all of the 23 studies. Reforming California’s public education system is a controversial issue: http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/newsbureau/displayRecord.php?tablename=susenews&id=257
The Governor's Committee on Education Excellence http://www.everychildprepared.org/index.php is an independent body created in April 2005. It is a non-partisan, privately funded group charged with examining K-12 education in California and recommending steps to improve the performance of public schools.
The California Superintendent of Public Instruction is an elected official and heads the California Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/index.asp.
The Mission of the SFUSD School of the Arts http://www.sfsota.org/ is to provide a specialized high school program and learning environment which are conducive to creative and independent thinking and artistic and academic excellence for promising students of the arts.
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