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The Agents of Zeitgeist are passionate about TV and they share that passion this week. Hosted by TV bloggers Anne Louise Bannon and Elise Crane Derby, and Donna Schwartz Mills.

One in three adult women is living in poverty or on the brink of it, according to A Woman's Nation, the joint study published by the Center for American Progress and The Shriver Report. Sixty-two percent of minimum wage jobs are held by women, which is why we consider this a women's issue. It ain't easy being in the economic class described as "the working poor," as illustrated by the Shriver Report's new HBO documentary, "Paycheck to Paycheck: A Year in the Life of Katrina Gilbert." MOMocrats Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills lead this political discussion from the progressive point of view by the MOMocrats. Produced by Engender Media Group.

The Agents of Zeitgeist are passionate about TV and they share that passion this week. Hosted by TV bloggers Anne Louise Bannon and Elise Crane Derby, and Donna Schwartz Mills.

Join Cynthia Liu of K12 News Network and Peggy Robertson and Morna McDermott of United Opt Out  and Jesse Hagopian, teacher leader from Seattle, to discuss rising unrest over the time and expense of standardized testing and how you can opt your child out of end-of-year and other tests. K12NN is a partner in the Testing Reform and Resistance movement to inform and support families who want their children to experience meaningful diagnostic tests that are teacher-originated, authentic and performance-based to assess children's progress.

Here's to more learning, less testing!

For more details on Testing Reform & Resistance Spring, see http://resistthetest.org

Go to United Opt Out for the 50-state guide and toolkit: http://unitedoptout.com/opt-out-tool-kit

And for people who say we need some sort of test, send them to read this: "No Unnecessary Testing": http://skrashen.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-fundamental-principle-no-unnecessary.html

The Agents of Zeitgeist are passionate about TV and they share that passion this week. Hosted by TV bloggers Anne Louise Bannon and Elise Crane Derby, and Donna Schwartz Mills.

Forty-two years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, a high profile industrial spill has made West Virginia water hazardous to your health. But that's just the most dramatic example of what happens in a red state hostile to environmental standards. People living downstream from the Tennessee Valley Authority have been dealing with the effects of a monstrous coal ash basin spill since Christmas, 2008 - with little help from the state or Federal governments. In fact, pollution from coal ash is an environmental hazard in communities throughout the country. Our guest today is journalist Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman of the Coal Ash Chronicles. Hosted by MOMocrats Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills. Produced by Engender Media Group.

Couldn't attend the Network for Public Education conference in Austin, TX, in person? Me neither. Join us for an informal, unofficial chat hosted by K-12 News Network with some friends of mine who attended. Guests are Pamela Grundy, a parent activist in support of public schools based in NC, Hannah Nguyen, co-organizer of Students Resisting TFA and Students United for Public Education. We'll find out what some of the highlights were of the conference for them and what important messages and strategies there are for folks at home.

http://k12newsnetwork.com

The Agents of Zeitgeist are passionate about TV and they share that passion this week. Hosted by TV bloggers Anne Louise Bannon and Elise Crane Derby, and Donna Schwartz Mills.

As surprising as it may seem, Rand Paul is actually getting some traction with the left, mostly by bootstrapping onto the NSA surveillance stories and advocating for restoration of felons’ voting rights. But don’t be fooled — those are just cynical ploys to attract people uninformed about who Rand Paul is and how close he is in ideology to his father, John Birch Society devotee Ron Paul.

We’re pleased to welcome back Claire Conner for the full hour. Claire is the author of Wrapped in the Flag, has an intimate understanding of what the right wing is doing in today’s political landscape, and has agreed to come back to the show to discuss Rand Paul, the Radical Right, and why liberals need to stop pretending they don’t matter.

Hosted by MOMocrats Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills. Produced by Engender Media Group.

This week marked the start of the new Tonight Show hosted by Jimmy Fallon, as well as a heartfelt tribute to comedy legend Sid Caesar by guest Mel Brooks on Conan O'Brien's show. And of course, the Agents of Zeitgeist have a few things to say about that - as well as binge watching House of Cards, Downton Abbey and more. The Agents of Zeitgeist are passionate about TV and they share that passion this week. Hosted by TV bloggers Anne Louise Bannon and Elise Crane Derby, and Donna Schwartz Mills.