(2010/11/07) The system is damaged but our expectations are broken (Education)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 November 2010
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Edition #426
The system is damaged but our expectations are broken
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Act 1: Update on crazy Texas textbook changes – Young Turks
Song 1: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – On the Good Ship Lollipop
Act 2: Peabody Public Schools – Colbert Report
Song 2: Classical gas – Vanessa Mae
Act 3: Waiting for superman an teacher unions – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
Act 4: Something is really wrong with our education system – Young Turks
Song 4: Trigonometry – Nascent
Act 5: Are tests biased against kids who don’t give a shit? – The Onion
Song 5: Care – Kid Rock
Act 6: Education coverage is anti-teacher – Counterspin
Song 6: Am I Wrong – Love Spit Love
Act 7: Davis Guggenheim – Colbert Report
Song 7: You Learn – Jagged Little Pill
Act 8: LA Times calls out school teachers – Young Turks
Song 8: The Gambler – The Gambler
Act 9: Beating up on teacher unions – Counterspin
Song 9: These days – Luxury
Act 10: Eighth-grade reading list favors stuff that sucks – The Onion
Song 10: The Revenge of Holden Caufield – Progression – EP
Act 11: Cenk on US education failure and potential – MSNBC
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Glenn Beck Hates Education – Young Turks
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Colbert Report
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The Onion
Counterspin
MSNBC
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors who sign up at BestOfAlef.com and also |
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| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfAlef podcast with clips today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.8 | the Colbert Report, the Jimmy Doar Show, the Onion Radio News, and Counter-Spin with |
| 0:16.7 | a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from the Young Turks. |
| 0:30.2 | The Texas State Board of Education has finally made a ruling. |
| 0:33.6 | They voted 95 for new high school standards in their textbooks. |
| 0:38.6 | Their textbooks reach 4.8 million students in Texas over the next 10 years, but also are |
| 0:45.0 | very important to the whole country because since Texas is such a large state, a lot of |
| 0:48.6 | other states simply take the Texas state books and put them in their classrooms as well. |
| 0:54.6 | So very broad implications for the country. |
| 0:57.2 | So they had some debates, I want to tell you about some of the results. |
| 1:01.6 | First of all, they decided to do reject language to modernize the classification of historic |
| 1:08.3 | periods from BCE and CE to the traditional BC and AD. |
| 1:12.3 | So is it before Christ or after Christ or is it not after Christ? |
| 1:16.1 | I think Ben and I are of the same mind here. |
| 1:18.6 | That ship has sailed. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, we lost that one. |
| 1:20.6 | It's okay. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:22.6 | It's BC. |
| 1:23.6 | Everybody calm down. |
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