A report on some exciting education developments across the country. In North Carolina a group of high school students have started a movement against mass incarceration. In California, students are being recognized for dual literacy in record numbers. And across the country opposition to standardized testing has taken off. 

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“Hear Dr. Lora Lempert talk about a program which brings together college students and incarcerated individuals behind prison walls to study a variety of college subjects, including incarceration itself. The program has spread to 30 states and several countries. Dr. Lempert provides little-known information about incarceration and education and explains how other institutions can create a local program like this one.”

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Yale economics professor John Roemer  outlines an innovative approach to saving humanity from the catastrophe of global warming. It includes greater equity in the distribution of growth between the countries of the “North” and “South”, and the optimistic projection that those of us in the 99% may organize the mass movement needed to claim our rightful portion of this smaller level of U.S. growth from the 1% who have recently been reaping almost all the benefits of growth.

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Kitty interviews the President-elect of the Los Angeles teachers union about the decision against teacher tenure handed down this week in an L.A. courtroom. Alex Caputo-Pearl is a progressive teacher who won the L.A union election last month; he will discuss his views on issues of standardized testing and community alliances as well as the teacher tenure case.

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Have the Bay Area Rapid Transit police changed since the killing of Oscar Grant? Kitty interviews a young woman whose recent experience with BART police raise serious questions in this regard.

Kitty also interviews a North Carolina parent who is challenging standardized testing by organizing parents to challenge testing policy and to take their children out of the testing.

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Kitty interviews author Alfie Kohn about his new book, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Childhood and Parenting. Find out what he means by our “conservative thinking” and why he advocates “raising rebels.”

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Muntu Davis, MD at the Alameda County Public Health Department about the report on gentrification in Oakland which his department recently produced in collaboration with Just Cause/Causa Justa.  How does displacement ruin the health of communities of color and what policies need to be changed?

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Kitty Kelly Epstein speaks with Kalimah Priforce, co-founder of Qeyno Labs, an education innovation start-up based in Oakland, California. Priforce was recently named a “Champion of Change” by President Barack Obama. He is also a driving force behind the Hidden Genius Project, a program that trains Black male youth in entrepreneurial thing, software development, and user experience design.

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