(2013/08/06) The high cost of higher learning (Education)
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🗓️ 6 August 2013
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Summary
Edition #743
The high cost of higher learning
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Reform Leading To Cheating - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 4-5-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Cheat - The Clash
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Drive To Cheat - Citizen Radio - Air Date 4-3-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Indian Moon - State Radio
Ch. 6: Act 3: Vital Education for Poor Kids: No, $100 Million For Sports Stadium: Yes. - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-24-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Chicago Teacher - Rebel Diaz
Ch. 8: Act 4: ALEC in education - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 9: Song 4: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 10: Act 5: Education Warps Your Mind - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 4-12-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Anti-intellectualism - Noise & Rhythm
Ch. 12: Act 6: Students Screwed By Government Inaction - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-06-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Burning bridges - Jack Scott
Ch. 14: Act 7: The High Cost of College - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-10-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Exploring and traveling theme - LOST
Ch. 16: Act 8: Fox's Stuart Varney Misleadingly Claims Subsidizing Student Loans Costs Taxpayers - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 07-18-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Exploring and traveling theme - LOST
Ch. 18: Act 9: Free Education Wins as Cooper Union Occupation Ends - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-17-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Higher Education - Knowledge
Ch. 20: Act 10: Student Loan Deal Could Be A Raw Deal - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-14-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: I didn't see that coming - Rob Hockney
Ch. 22: Act 11: Forget student loans – make higher ed free - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 7-30-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: The perfect space - The Avett Brothers
Ch. 24: Act 12: Time for a Student Loan Jubilee! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-25-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 25: Better to err of the side of avoiding false conviction - Garrett from Colorado
Ch. 26: Troubled by Wade's comments - Steve from Stockton, CA
Ch. 27: Jury nullification is one thing, the reverse is something else - Casey from Chicago, IL
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 28: Thanks to Climate Ride donors
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
https://www.facebook.com/events/398759776900781/
http://www.ctunet.com/events
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12175/cashing-kids139-alec-bills-2013-promote-private-profit-education-model
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/15/1223638/-Will-Chicago-Stand-Up-to-ALEC
http://www.thenation.com/article/175085/chicago-rising#
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17975-why-alec-fabricated-public-school-failures-and-why-were-not-surprised
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/emails-link-jeb-bush-education-group-
http://raniakhalek.com/2012/01/12/why-is-public-education-being-outsourced-to-online-charter-schools/
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:17.1 | Citizen Radio, the majority report of the young Turks, the Tom Martin program, |
| 0:20.4 | The Media Matters Minute, and Jim Hightower, and a note that if college were free, |
| 0:24.5 | then it would have benefited me personally and basically everyone else in the country, |
| 0:28.1 | so advocating for it could really be seen as conflict of interest, just full disclosure. |
| 0:34.4 | So there's been a real BS reform movement in education, and what it is is to apply corporate ideas |
| 0:41.2 | to education, meaning incentives, financial incentives, to get teachers, so if they're |
| 0:46.8 | tech scores, it's all this whole standardized testing, which A doesn't work, right? It doesn't |
| 0:51.9 | really test how good a teacher is. The problems with schools are failing schools, |
| 0:57.9 | are in failing communities, and succeeding schools are in succeeding communities, right? |
| 1:02.4 | So you don't go to a rich neighborhood and they have a failing school, it doesn't happen, okay? |
| 1:06.6 | So it's always failed with me as well. Me too. So now they have all these corporate |
| 1:10.7 | guys like Arnie Duncan, President Barack Obama's on board for a two's, ever since waiting for |
| 1:15.2 | Superman, the idea is we've, what's wrong with education is bad teachers, and what I always |
| 1:21.6 | tell people, you fire every bad teacher there is, there is no room full of great teachers waiting |
| 1:26.8 | to take those jobs, they're not, because the people who graduate at the top of their class |
| 1:31.6 | all go to Wall Street, because that's what we value in this country, and teachers are doing |
| 1:38.0 | miracles every day in the classroom, they're doing great things every day, and teachers aren't |
| 1:42.8 | motivated by money, that's a vocation, they're motivated by helping people and educating, it's what |
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