Voice of America, August 20, 2009 by Kathryn Baron
http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2009-08-20-voa28.cfm
What are the ingredients of a successful school system? Getting the recipe right is important. In presenting his education agenda, President Barack Obama has said, “The future belongs to the nation that best educates its people.” For now, educators suggest, that distinction lies half a world away from Washington, D.C.—in Singapore.
KQED-FM, The California Report, June 5, 2009 by Kathryn Baron
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R906051630/a
Although California lets some undocumented students pay in-state tuition at public colleges, other laws prohibit those students from receiving any governmental financial aid. The girls have been applying for every private scholarship they can find. Cindy has raised about $45,000 dollars, enough for about a year-and-a-half at UCLA.
KQED-FM, Commonwealth Club May 22, 2009 by Kathryn Baron
http://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20090506_kopp.mp3
“Wendy Kopp was a newly released Princeton graduate. While her classmates were vying for jobs on Wall Street, Wendy was moving into a $500-dollar a month brownstone apartment … with a 26-thousand dollar grant from Mobile Corporation, donated space, and a determination to start a national teacher corps for the country’s most disadvantaged children. With that leap of faith, Teach for America was born.”
KQED-FM, The California Report, May 15, 2009 by Kathryn Baron
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R905151630/e
For this mission, Massimino has packed a small cash of objects that holds deep meaning for him. He has a family photo, school mementos and this Catholic man who grew up on long island is carrying a Mezuzah; a symbol of the Jewish faith…. Massimino is carrying this Mezuzah in honor of Astronaut Ilan Ramon, whose parents were Holocaust survivors.
KQED The California Report, January 17, 2009 hosted by Rachael Myrow
http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/151/510005/99422973/KQED_99422973.mp3?_kip_ipx=559752732-1235001904
“President-elect Obama wants to provide scholarships to new teachers to work in poor inner-city schools, a key to addressing the achievement gap that plagues California schools with their diverse student population. He also wants to put more money into leadership training and mentoring to keep young teachers in the profession. And he is proposing financial incentives to recruit more math and science teachers, who are in short supply in the state.”
The California Report, September 26, by Kathryn Baron
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R809261630/d
“Alta Vista stands out among California’s 519 continuation high schools. It’s one of 70 that meet the state standards to be called ‘model continuation schools.’ The rest of them, according to a recent study, are underfinanced, under-resourced, and underperforming.”