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First Things Podcast

Journalism for Literacy - Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (6.3.21)

First Things Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Peter Meyer joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss his career as a journalist turned educator and the innovative way he’s improving literacy in his low-income school district. To subscribe to his news quarterly, visit www.paideiatimes.org.

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Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

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an accredited four-year Great Books Institution is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.

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The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition,

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the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage

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of the Catholic Church. Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect through

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the great books and traditional disciplines, literature and philosophy, mathematics and theology,

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science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none. The college celebrated an in-person

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graduation with its seniors last year

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and welcomed its largest freshman class ever this year. Learn more about the college's

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unique space in the world of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu.

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Peter Meyer is the former news editor at Time, Life, and People magazine, author of many books, including

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the Yale Murder and Death of Innocence. He now edits Pidea Times, a digital newsletter for

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college leaders, and he is the director of a project entitled School Life Media. Peter Meyer, thank you for joining us.

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Thanks, Mark, for having me.

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I'd love to be back in your sphere of influence.

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My gosh, been a while.

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Okay.

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The School Life Media, just describe us what is that?

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It's essentially a junior journalism program.

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It's got bigger, it started off, school life media started off with bigger objectives

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of spreading the fact-based education around the globe.

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I'm an E.D. Hirsch Apostle, early promoter of Hirsch, and so I have been

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